27 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa · November 22, 1994
Perrin v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1994)
The district court granted summary judgment to defendants Owens Illinois, Owens Corning and Fibreboard and third-party defendant Flintkote, and denied the Perrins' request to shift the burden of proof on causation. Under Iowa law, evidence…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Columbia · October 28, 1981
Fearson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1981)
Rita Fearson, as administratrix, sued Johns-Manville and other asbestos product companies after her husband Joseph Fearson died of lung cancer in 1979 at age 57. He had worked as an asbestos insulation installer in the District of Columbia from 1936…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 25, 1983
Froud v. Celotex Corp. (1983)
Three consolidated suits in Cook County, Illinois, were brought by the estates and survivors of three people who had been exposed to asbestos insulation products. Two died of peritoneal mesothelioma and one of bronchogenic carcinoma, and the…
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · October 5, 1981
White v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1981)
Five workers at the Newport News shipyard (White, Oman, Walker, Reynolds and Gibbons) sued several asbestos product makers after developing asbestosis. They had worked with asbestos insulation materials building and repairing ships. The district…
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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 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, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · March 20, 1985
Lowe v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1985)
Eugene Lowe and his wife sued a group of asbestos companies in 1982 over injuries from his work exposure to asbestos. Lowe died in September 1982, and his co-administrators were substituted as plaintiffs. He had worked at various times from 1942 at…
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Court case · New York Court of Appeals · October 29, 1981
Matter of Steinhardt v. JohnsManville Corp. (1981)
Seven sets of plaintiffs sued Johns-Manville and other asbestos companies. Several sued as representatives of workers who had died. They said the workers' inhalation of asbestos caused injuries. Each case was filed more than four years after the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · December 3, 2015
Feaster v. AW Chesterton Company (2015)
The court granted summary judgment to Owens-Illinois, Brand Insulations and Durametallic, and against plaintiff Feaster, because he did not identify any of them as a source of his asbestos exposure. Under New Jersey law, an…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · July 26, 1982 · in the opinion
Hardy v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)
…Insulating, UNARCO Industries, Nicolette, and Celotex. Six of the present appellants were parties to Borel: Pittsburgh Corning, Armstrong Cork, Phillip Carey, Ruberoid, Johns-Manville, and Fibreboard Paper. Owens Corning Fiberglass, Standard Asbestos Mfg. & Insulating, UNARCO, and…
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Court case · Michigan Supreme Court · December 29, 1986 · in the opinion
Larson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1986)
…958-959; 275 SE2d 900 (1981) (cause of action accrues when, according to medical testimony, plaintiff was first harmed by asbestos); Neubauer v Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp, 686 F2d 570, 577 (CA 7, 1982), cert den…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · March 23, 1984 · in the opinion
Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1984)
…Inc.; American Mutual Corporation; Combustion Engineering, Inc.; Flintkote Corporation; Johns-Manville Sales Corporation; Keene Corporation; Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation; Owens-Illinois, Inc.; H.K. Porter Company, Inc.; Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.; and Standard Asbestos Manufacturing & Insulation Company…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · June 25, 1982
Froud v. Celotex Corporation (1982)
Three asbestos workers, James Froud, John Friday and Wyatt Williamson, died after allegedly developing disease from prolonged exposure to asbestos products made and sold by the defendants. Froud and Friday had peritoneal mesothelioma; Williamson had…
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Court case · Ohio Court of Common Pleas · March 22, 1984
English v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1984)
Virginia English, as executrix of her husband Thomas English's estate, sued Johns-Manville and other companies. She claimed he died of pleural mesothelioma caused by inhaling asbestos fibers from the defendants' products. The defendants said the…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · January 21, 1985 · in the opinion
Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1985)
…parts. Martinez v. Rodriguez, 394 F.2d 156, 159 n. 6 (5th Cir.1968). \[22\] See, e.g., Owen, Punitive Damages in Products Liability Litigation, 74 Mich.L.Rev. 1257 (1976); Seltzer, supra note 15; Comment…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin · August 22, 2014 · in the opinion
Boyer v. Weyerhaeuser Company (2014)
Strict Liability Plaintiffs' strict liability claim against Owens-Illinois is similarly flawed. To impose strict liability under Wisconsin law, the defendant must be "engaged in the business" of selling the alleged defective product. Geboy v. TRL…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · February 5, 1985
Meehan v. Celotex Corp. (1985)
Carmella Meehan, as personal representative of her husband Charles Meehan's estate, sued Celotex and other asbestos product makers, claiming their products caused his death. Charles worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard from 1942 to 1945, where he was…
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Court case · New Jersey Supreme Court · April 19, 1982
Beshada v. Johns-Manville Products Corp. (1982)
Six consolidated cases were brought by workers, or the survivors of deceased workers, against makers and distributors of asbestos products. The workers said they were exposed to asbestos on the job. They claimed illnesses including asbestosis and…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas · March 13, 1981
Hardy v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1981)
This opinion covers fifty-seven consolidated asbestos cases in the Marshall division of the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiffs included insulation workers, pipefitters, carpenters and factory workers, and the defendants were asbestos product…