54 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 3
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · June 30, 1992
Feldman v. Owens-Illinois (In re Brooklyn Navy Yard Asbestos Litigation, 1992)
Workers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and families of those who died, sued makers of asbestos insulation products for diseases including lung cancer, colon cancer, mesothelioma, laryngeal cancer, pleural disease and asbestosis. The jury, in a joint…
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Court case · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · August 24, 1989
District of Columbia v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation (1989)
The District of Columbia sued thirty-seven miners, manufacturers, sellers and distributors of asbestos. It sought removal costs and other damages for asbestos in roughly 2,400 public buildings, including schools, libraries, hospitals, government…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · May 6, 1996
Viereck v. Fibreboard Corp. (1996)
The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment on the jury verdict for Virgil Viereck's estate and his wife Julia Viereck against Owens-Corning Fiberglas, holding that pre-WPLA law applied and that the evidentiary rulings…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 14, 1994
Coates v. AC and S, Inc. (1994)
…admitted the OSHA and EPA publications, and denied Owens-Corning's motions on third-party medical payments, mental anguish and reverse bifurcation. Pre-comparative-fault law and equal ("by heads") apportionment governed the wrongful death claim…
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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 · Alabama Supreme Court · April 30, 1993
Hogland v. Celotex Corp. (1993)
Jessie Hogland sued several companies, some initially under fictitious names, claiming he developed mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos-containing products. He died of the disease on November 10, 1985. In 1990 his wife, Yvonne Hogland, as…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · April 26, 1999
Greenleaf v. Garlock, Inc. (1999)
…so judgment for the Greenleafs against Garlock and Owens Corning must be entered at the state amount. It also ordered a new trial on Garlock's and Owens Corning's crossclaims against the non-appearing defendants…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · June 23, 1994
Busfield v. AC & S., Inc. (1994)
Alva Busfield and his wife sued many asbestos companies. A jury found that Busfield had an asbestos-related disease, asymptomatic asbestosis or pleural thickening, but that it caused him no harm. The opinion does not describe where or how he was…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · January 31, 1986
Knauer v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
George Knauer and his wife Ann sued thirteen asbestos manufacturers in federal court in Maryland in December 1980, alleging he developed mesothelioma from exposure to defendants' asbestos products. He died on May 1, 1982. On May 6, 1985, five days…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit · September 26, 1990
Hoffman v. Allied Corp. (1990)
Milton Hoffman and his wife Lillian sued Armstrong World Industries and other asbestos product makers in federal court in Florida. Milton was diagnosed with pleural malignant mesothelioma. During World War II he spent about 14 months as a lathe…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · November 25, 1985
Graffagnino v. Fibreboard Corp. (1985)
Steve Graffagnino worked as an insulator at Texaco's Port Arthur, Texas, refinery for about forty years and handled asbestos products made and distributed by the defendants. In 1981 he and his wife sued over his asbestos exposure and settled for…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · July 26, 1982
Hardy v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)
Dozens of workers, including insulators, pipefitters, carpenters and factory workers, sued many makers and sellers of asbestos-containing products in federal court in East Texas. They claimed exposure to the products and resulting disease. Each…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · November 23, 1994 · in the opinion
Adcock v. Brakegate, Ltd. (1994)
…Jayant W. Tambe, Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Chicago, for amicus curiae Owens-Illinois, Inc. Chief Justice BILANDIC delivered the opinion of the court: The plaintiff, Samuel Adcock, as executor of Hubert Adcock, Jr.'s estate, brought an…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · March 28, 2001 · in the opinion
Abadie v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. (2001)
…Fibreboard Corporation, Flexitallic, GAF Corporation/Ruberoid, Garlock, Johns Manville, National Gypsum Corporation, Owens Illinois, Rapid American, Rock Wool Manufacturing, Uniroyal, and UNR (UNARCO); for a total of 26 virile shares. We subtract two shares for Kelmell…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi · November 21, 1980 · in the opinion
McCarty v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1980)
…S. Allred, Jackson, Miss., for Acands, Inc. Richard L. Forman, Jackson, Miss., for Nicolet, Inc., Owens-Illinois, Inc. and National Gypsum Co. Thomas W. Tardy, III, Jackson, Miss., for Combustion Engineering, Inc. M. M. Roberts, Hattiesburg…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · July 25, 1950
Arthur J. Vorwald and J. P. Woodard on Shipping Asbestos in Burlap Bags (1950)
…suggested the use of paper containers for asbestos fiber, comparable to those used for diatomaceous earth, as an improvement from a hygiene perspective. Problem was brought to Vorwald's attention by medical director of Owens-Illinois.
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · June 21, 1933
Vandiver Brown to C. B. Belknap on the New Jersey Rock Wool Silicosis Transcripts (1933)
…Owens-Illinois. In Johns-Manville's chronology Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows: On 6/21/33, Vandiver Brown sent to C.B. Belknap, Esq. (Owens-Illinois…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · August 22, 1956
H. M. Jackson to Dr. R. E. Joyner of Carbide and Carbon Chemicals on Superex and Thermobestos Insulation (1956)
…particles. That letter is not in this file, which holds only the first letter, the one saying Thermobestos contained expanded perlite. Related documents Arthur J. Vorwald to Owens-Illinois on Kaylo Causing Asbestosis in Animals (1948)
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · July 25, 2014 · in the opinion
Lovelace v. Pneumo Abex LLC (2014)
…tortfeasors, we "resolve all conflicts in the evidence in favor of respondent, and indulge all legitimate and reasonable inferences in support of the judgment." (Sparks v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1995) 32 Cal.App.4th 461, 471…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · July 30, 1993
Adcock v. Brakegate, Ltd. (1993)
Affirmed the judgment on the $213,811.79 verdict for the plaintiff executor against Owens-Corning Fiberglas, upholding denial of OCF's motion to dismiss the civil conspiracy counts and the default judgment on liability entered…