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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 21, 1999
McClure v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1999)
The Illinois Supreme Court reversed the appellate court and the jury verdicts for the three plaintiffs, and ordered judgment entered for Owens Corning and Owens-Illinois because the evidence did not prove a civil conspiracy. Parallel…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · August 11, 1998
McClure v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
The appellate court affirmed the jury verdicts for plaintiffs Bicknell, Thacker and McClure against Owens Corning Fiberglas and (in McClure) Owens-Illinois, and remanded only so the trial court could apply setoffs for settlements with other…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · February 20, 1998
Ruckstuhl v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
Evelyn Ruckstuhl and her husband Richard sued several companies in Louisiana state court. They alleged she was diagnosed with mesothelioma in March 1996 from asbestos exposure in two ways: dust on her husband's work clothes from the Baton Rouge…
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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 · Illinois Appellate Court · March 1, 2000
Burgess v. Abex Corp. EX rel. Pneumo Abex (2000)
On remand from the Illinois Supreme Court in light of McClure, the appellate court reversed the judgment against Abex and remanded for a new trial, and reversed the judgment against Pittsburgh Corning and ordered judgment entered…
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Court case · Ohio Supreme Court · October 14, 1987
Goldman v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1987)
The executrix of Roy Goldman's estate sued Johns-Manville and many other asbestos companies over Goldman's death. Goldman had worked at the Sherlock Bakery in Toledo, Ohio. The plaintiff could not identify which products at the bakery contained…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · June 2, 1993
Jackson v. Anchor Packing Co. (1993)
The Eighth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for all defendants (Owens-Corning, Owens-Illinois, Fibreboard, Keene, Anchor, Chesterton, Garlock, John Crane, Rexnord and Georgia Talc) against the ten Mohawk tire plant workers, because the workers lacked sufficient…
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Court case · Oklahoma Supreme Court · September 22, 1987
Case v. Fibreboard Corp. (1987)
Bobbie Edwin Case and his wife Eva sued twenty-two asbestos product makers in federal court in Oklahoma. Mr. Case said he was a sheet metal worker in Oklahoma from 1949 on and was exposed to asbestos-containing products made and sold by the…
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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 · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · September 21, 1995
Baumgart v. Keene Bldg. Products Corp. (1995)
Mildred Baumgart sued makers and suppliers of asbestos products after her husband, Anthony Baumgart, died of mesothelioma on March 31, 1985. He had worked for Witco Chemical Corporation from 1950 to 1980 and was allegedly exposed to…
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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. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · February 5, 1986
Jenkins v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1986)
Wanda Jenkins and other plaintiffs with asbestos-related personal injury suits pending in the Eastern District of Texas sued thirteen companies. Ten of the plaintiffs asked the court to certify a class of all such pending cases. They wanted to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana · June 23, 1999
Lambert v. Babcock & Wilcox Co. (1999)
Cheryl Lambert sued several companies, including John Crane and W.R. Grace, for the wrongful death of her husband Samuel Lambert. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in October 1992 and died in March 1993 at age 42. Her original complaint blamed his…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · July 20, 1992
Marinari v. Asbestos Corp., Ltd. (1992)
Anthony Marinari worked as a laborer at Philip Carey Manufacturing in 1928-1929 and at Alan Wood Steel from 1937 to 1972, and was allegedly exposed to asbestos dust at both. A 1983 chest x-ray showed asymptomatic pleural thickening, and he did not…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · April 2, 2004 · in the opinion
Roberts v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (2004)
878 So.2d 631 (2004) Wesley ROBERTS, Jr. and Annie Matt Roberts v. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORP., Pittsburgh Corning Corp., Owens-Illinois, Inc., Owens- Illinois Glass Co., Garlock, Inc., Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc., Rock Wool…
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Court case · Minnesota Supreme Court · May 14, 1982 · in the opinion
DeCosse v. Armstrong Cork Co. (1982)
…etc., Respondent, Keene Corporation, Respondent, MacArthur Corporation, Respondent, Nicolet Industries, Inc., etc., Respondent, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Respondent, Owens-Illinois Corporation, Defendant, Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, Respondent, Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., Defendant, Southern Asbestos Company, etc., Respondent, Standard…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · November 22, 1999 · in the opinion
Miller v. Foster Wheeler Co. (1999)
…John Crane-Houdaille, Inc.; Keene Corporation; Matson Navigation Co., Inc.; National Gypsum Company; Olympic Steamship Company, Inc.; Owens-Illinois, Inc.; PPG Industries, Inc.; Pittsburgh Corning Corporation; Philbrico Company; States Steamship Company; The Oceanic Steamship Company; U…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · June 14, 1990
Owens Corning Fiberglas v. Ind. Comm'n (1990)
…Charlotte Hammond, against Owens Corning Fiberglas and denied Owens Corning credit for her loss of consortium recovery. Under section 7 of the Workers' Occupational Diseases Act, a widow has an independent cause of action for death…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · November 2, 1993 · in the opinion
Zenson v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1993)
…Philadelphia, PA, for Celotex Corp., Hopeman Bros., Inc., Keene Corp., Owen Illinois, Inc. Mary K. Coleman, Pittsburgh, PA, for Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. Fredrick L. Goldfein, Philadelphia, PA, for Garlock, Inc. MEMORANDUM/ORDER KATZ, District Judge…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · June 15, 1998
Consorti v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (In Re Joint Eastern and Southern Dist. Asbestos, 1998)
The court granted Owens Corning's motion for a new trial unless Consorti accepts a reduced pain and suffering award of $5 million (a $7 million remittitur), and denied Owens Corning's request to cut the…