22 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 2
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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 · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · December 22, 1989
Sholtis v. American Cyanamid Co. (1989)
Two long-time employees of the American Cyanamid plant, Robert Sholtis and Sam Lee, sued asbestos manufacturers and suppliers. Sholtis died at 65 of pleural asbestosis. He had worked as a mill operator, maintenance laborer, pipefitter's helper and…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 25, 1983
Froud v. Celotex Corp. (1983)
The Illinois Supreme Court reversed the appellate court and affirmed the circuit court's dismissal of the plaintiffs' common law punitive damages claims against the asbestos defendants, including Celotex, because those claims did not survive the…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · July 16, 1991
Fibreboard Corp. v. Pool (1991)
Five workers at the Texas Eastman plant in Longview, Texas, or their families sued Fibreboard, Owens-Illinois, Celotex, Flintkote and Garlock, claiming the companies failed to warn of asbestos dangers. The workers were insulators or maintenance…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · August 12, 1996
Nelson v. Keene Corp. (1996)
Elda Nelson and Patricia Dunning sued asbestos companies after Robert Nelson, a former asbestos worker, and Colette Fitzsimmons, a teacher exposed at her school, developed mesothelioma and died in 1987. In April 1987 the plaintiffs had opened Rule…
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Court case · Florida Supreme Court · June 13, 1985
Celotex Corp. v. Copeland (1985)
Lee Loyd Copeland and his wife sued sixteen asbestos product manufacturers. Copeland worked as a boilermaker from 1942 to 1975 on 50 to 100 jobs, and he developed asbestosis and an asbestos-related cancer. He said the products were mostly insulation…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · October 27, 2004
Cichirillo v. Avondale Industries (2004)
…trial court's ruling that Cichirillo's claim against Northrop Grumman (Avondale), Flintkote, Territo, Owens-Illinois, Uniroyal, Hopeman Brothers and Charles Johnson was prescribed, and remanded the case for further proceedings. A timely suit in a…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · June 2, 2004
Torrejon v. Mobil Oil Co. (2004)
Christina Torrejon sued Mobil Oil Company over the death of her husband, Joseph Torrejon, a merchant seaman who died of mesothelioma in 1994 at age 77. He had worked on Mobil vessels from 1941 to 1949 and in 1956 as an oiler, machinist, engineer and…
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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 · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware · December 21, 2012 · in the opinion
In re the Flintkote Company (2012)
…2010 or September 2011. They filed no post-trial briefs, and counsel for Owens filed a withdrawal of appearance in this case on February 17, 2011. Doc. No. 5688. Accordingly, Owens-Illinois, Inc. has abandoned its…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware · December 21, 2012 · in the opinion
In re Flintkote Co. (2012)
…2010 or September 2011. They filed no post-trial briefs, and counsel for Owens filed a withdrawal of appearance in this case on February 17, 2011. Doc. No. 5688. Accordingly, Owens-Illinois, Inc. has abandoned its…
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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 · Louisiana Court of Appeals · January 28, 1998
Re' v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
Diana Re' sued Owens-Corning, Garlock, W.R. Grace, Flintkote and others in Orleans Parish. She alleged she developed mesothelioma from asbestos dust carried home on her father's work clothes during her childhood, from 1963…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · March 1, 2013
Motions for Access OF Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC (2013)
Garlock Sealing Technologies, a maker of sealing products, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in North Carolina in 2010 to set up a trust for current and future asbestos claims. To prepare for a trial estimating its mesothelioma liability, it asked the…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware · October 7, 2011
In re ACandS, Inc. (2011)
…W.R. Grace, Flintkote and Owens Corning. It also asked to intervene in those cases and to reopen the ones already closed. Garlock said it wanted to show that law firms had concealed their clients' exposure…
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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…