77 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 4
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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 · Texas Court of Appeals · November 18, 1993
Srite v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1993)
The court of appeals affirmed the jury's zero past-damages awards for the workers and wives against Owens-Illinois, Fibreboard, Pittsburgh-Corning and Keene, but reversed the limitations bar against the Spikes plaintiffs and reversed…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · February 9, 2001
Boldini v. Owens Corning (2001)
…judgment for Sprinkmann Sons Corporation of Illinois and remanded, holding the construction statute of repose did not bar plaintiffs' claims based on Sprinkmann's sale and distribution of asbestos products. The Illinois construction statute of repose…
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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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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · January 31, 1990
Kraciun v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1990)
Six longtime workers at the E.I. du Pont plant in Clinton, Iowa, and their wives sued makers of asbestos insulation products. The workers said they were exposed through insulation on pipes and boilers, and in some cases through cleaning out machine…
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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 · Pennsylvania Superior Court · May 25, 1993
Dempsey v. Pacor, Inc. (1993)
The Superior Court vacated the judgments entered for the six plaintiff couples against Owens-Illinois, Keene and Fibreboard and remanded for a new trial on damages only, with no fear or increased-risk-of-cancer elements…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · April 4, 1996
Simmons v. Pacor, Inc. (1996)
…for the defendants in Giffear and reversed the plaintiffs' verdicts in Simmons and Murray, so Owens-Illinois, Fibreboard and Keene prevailed over the three plaintiff couples. Asymptomatic pleural thickening without physical impairment is not a compensable…
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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 · Louisiana Court of Appeals · October 21, 1998
Asbestos v. Bordelon, Inc. (1998)
The court affirmed the jury verdicts for the plaintiffs against Owens-Corning Fiberglas (Kaylo insulation) and Rock Wool (One Shot cement), reversed the judgments against Garlock, A.W. Chesterton and Flexitallic, affirmed the judgments against Abadie…
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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 · Colorado Supreme Court · February 16, 1993
Fibreboard Corp. v. Fenton (1993)
…partly favoring Fibreboard and Owens-Illinois and partly Fenton. State-of-the-art evidence is admissible in strict liability failure-to-warn claims to show a product was not defective and unreasonably dangerous because the risk…
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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…