55 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 3
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Owens-Illinois
Owens-Illinois (O-I) is an American glass manufacturer that, from the 1940s until it sold the business in April 1958, also made an asbestos-containing high-temperature pipe and block insulation called Kaylo. Internal documents…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 12, 1956
W. G. Hazard of Owens-Illinois to Ira I. Brought on Kaylo and the Saranac Experiments (1956)
What it shows Saranac had told Owens-Illinois in 1948 that every animal exposed to Kaylo dust developed "unmistakable evidence of asbestosis" and that Kaylo "should be handled as a hazardous industrial dust" (Vorwald's letter…
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Company document · 1988
Owens-Illinois's Responses to Plaintiffs' First Interrogatories in Bexley v. Armstrong World Industries (1988)
What it shows Owens-Illinois points to the Saranac Laboratory papers but says the knowledge of the day was "a recognized safe exposure level" (Nos. 13, 19); it says it had no reason to believe Kaylo…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · August 13, 1982
Neubauer v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1982)
Ten insulation workers or their survivors sued makers of asbestos insulation in federal court in Wisconsin. Two of the workers died of mesothelioma, and the other eight have asbestosis. The defendants moved for summary judgment, arguing the…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · February 27, 1989
Fisher v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1989)
Charles Fisher and his wife sued several asbestos product companies in 1985, claiming his exposure to asbestos had caused asbestosis, cancer, and possibly mesothelioma. The parties settled for $60,000, and the Fishers signed a release of all claims,…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · December 9, 1952
Curtis W. Howard to George R. White Proposing the "Handling Kaylo Products" Pamphlet (1952)
A one-page Owens-Illinois Kaylo Division memo of December 9, 1952, from Curtis W. Howard to George R. White, with a four-page draft titled "Handling Kaylo Products" that Howard proposed to publish as a…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · September 21, 1948
W. G. Hazard to Arthur J. Vorwald on the Composition of Kaylo (1948)
What it shows The letter shows Owens-Illinois describing to Saranac the asbestos content of the dust being tested, two months before Vorwald reported that the animals had developed asbestosis (his letter of November 16, 1948…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · June 12, 1956
W. G. Hazard to Ira I. Brought Sending the Saranac Kaylo Article (1956)
…Brochure (1956) W. G. Hazard of Owens-Illinois to Ira I. Brought on Kaylo and the Saranac Experiments (1956) About this copy This is document 187 of the Motley 1,000, from the set the Manville…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · June 12, 1956
W. G. Hazard to W. J. Stewart on Ira Brought's Request for a Kaylo Health Brochure (1956)
A one-page Owens-Illinois memo dated June 12, 1956, from W. G. Hazard to W. J. Stewart, with copies to E. C. Shuman and Dr. C. F. Shook. Ira Brought had called that morning to…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · September 4, 1997
In re Celotex Corp. (1997)
…district court's denial of Owens-Illinois's motion to remand and its dismissal of the contribution action against Rapid American for lack of personal jurisdiction, so Rapid won and Owens-Illinois lost. A contribution action…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · May 22, 1996
Egan v. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. (1996)
The appeals court affirmed the bench-trial judgment against Owens-Corning Fiberglass (OCF), including the $350,000 general damages award and the set-off ruling, and rejected the plaintiff's request for punitive damages under Ohio…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · March 30, 1990
Leng v. Celotex Corp. (1990)
…liability counts against Celotex and the other defendants, refusing to adopt market share liability in Illinois asbestos cases. Illinois does not recognize market share liability in asbestos cases, so a plaintiff who cannot identify the manufacturers…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · September 18, 1989
IN the Matter of Estate OF Foster (1989)
Kathryn Koehler, personal representative of Edwin Foster's estate, sued asbestos insulation manufacturers, including Fibreboard and Owens-Illinois, alleging improper design and lack of warnings. Foster developed mesothelioma, which the estate attributed to asbestos exposure at…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · August 7, 1992
Blancha v. Raymark Industries (1992)
Frank Thomas served in the Navy from 1951 to 1955. For about nine months he worked as a machinist on two ships at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and was exposed to asbestos products. He was diagnosed with an asbestos-related condition in 1987 and…
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · October 3, 1995
Barnes v. Keene Corp. (1995)
…and remanded for judgment against the four remaining defendants (Keene, Manville, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Owens-Illinois), but affirmed the single judgment in all other respects, so widow Ruth Barnes won on liability and lost on the…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · May 18, 1990
Howell v. Celotex Corp. (1990)
Joseph Howell and his wife sued Celotex, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh-Corning, GAF, Keene and Owens-Corning in federal court in Pennsylvania over asbestos-related harm. Howell had pleural thickening, a scarring of the lung lining linked…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · July 16, 1992
Bowers v. Fibreboard Corporation (1992)
The Court of Appeals affirmed the jury verdicts for the plaintiffs (the Eldredge and Williams estates and Mrs. Eldredge) against Fibreboard and Owens-Illinois, finding no error in the jury instruction or the evidence rulings; Celotex…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · December 14, 2020
Adams v. Ethyl Corporation (2020)
…general damages to $3,000,000, and rejected both Ethyl's challenges and the plaintiffs' challenge to the jury's allocation of fault to Owens-Illinois. Under Louisiana article 2317, a premises condition is a defect…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · July 27, 1988
Blazek v. Nicolet, Inc. (1988)
…The appellate court disagreed. It said the Illinois Supreme Court had not defined a reasonable time and that the legislature was best placed to set one. Her suit came about seven years after the statute took…