12 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · June 16, 2000
Chrabas v. Owens-Illinois (Matter of Eighth Judicial District Asbestos Litigation, 2000)
The Appellate Division affirmed the Supreme Court's order denying Owens-Illinois's motion to apply Florida law to loss allocation issues and directing that New York law apply, so the plaintiffs prevailed on the choice…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · September 30, 1999
Porter Hayden Company v. Wyche (1999)
George Wyche, Jr., a longtime worker at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point plant, and his wife Joan sued several companies, including Porter Hayden Company, claiming his asbestosis and lung cancer resulted from workplace exposure to asbestos products.…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa · July 16, 1998
Harder v. ACandS, Inc. (1998)
Oscar Harder worked from 1956 to 1989 as a utility worker for Iowa Public Service. His duties included maintenance at several power plants, among them overhauling General Electric steam turbines. Each overhaul began with removing thermal asbestos…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 30, 2002
Hennegan v. Cooper/T. Smith Stevedoring Co. (2002)
James Hennegan worked from 1965 to 1968 as a deckhand and Jones Act seaman on derrick barges owned by Cooper/T. Smith. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 1997 and died in 1999. He sued, and after his death his wife continued the case individually…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · December 26, 2001 · in the opinion
Burns v. AP Green Industries, Inc. (2001)
…Asbestos Management Corporation, d/b/a National Gypsum Company; Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation; Owens-Illinois, Inc.; Rapid American Corporation, as Successor-in-Interest to Philip Carey Corporation; Sprinkmann Sons Corporation of Illinois; The Synkoloid Company; W…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · June 27, 1996 · in the opinion
Georgine v. Amchem Products, Inc. (1996)
…IL, James D. Miller, King & Spalding, Washington, DC, Philip McWeeny, David L. Gray, Owens-Illinois, Inc., Toledo, Ohio, for Owens-Illinois, Inc.-Amicus Curiae. Robert G. Vial, Dallas, Texas, Gordon S. Rather, Jr., Little Rock, Arkansas…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · November 18, 1994
Keystone Steel and Wire Co. v. Costa (1994)
The appellate court affirmed the judgment against Owens-Corning (including the new trial limited to wrongful death damages) and affirmed the denial of Keystone Steel & Wire's petitions for subpoena-compliance expenses, so the plaintiff and…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · November 18, 1994
Costa v. Dresser Industries, Inc. (1994)
…the widow's claims of trial error and her sanctions request. Expert testimony from a witness disclosed months before trial was properly admitted under Illinois Rule 220 even though the plaintiff never served Rule 220 interrogatories…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · May 13, 2019
Cameron v. Atlantic Richfield Company (2019)
Gary Cameron died in 2012 of mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure. His wife, Linda Cameron, sued several companies, including PacifiCorp, which with other utilities sponsored construction of the Centralia Steam Plant in the 1970s. Asbestos was…
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Court case · Indiana Court of Appeals · July 20, 2001
Black v. ACandS, Inc. (2001)
Lois Black sued on behalf of her late husband Willie's estate, and in her own right for loss of consortium, after he died of lung cancer in 1996. He had worked as a blast furnace worker at U.S. Steel's Gary Works from 1956 to 1983 and inhaled…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · December 21, 2006 · in the opinion
Gilcrease v. Garlock, Inc. (2006)
…A.P. Green Industries ($750,000); Owens-Corning Fiberglas ($300,000); and Fibreboard ($900,000).\[2\] Appellants argued that these settlements were void and should not count as credits because they had not been paid. Following…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · September 16, 2002 · in the opinion
Wilson v. AP Green Industries, Inc. (2002)
…that \[her\] contact with it was of such a nature as to raise a reasonable inference that \[s\]he inhaled asbestos fibers that emanated from it." Coward v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 729 A.2d 614…