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  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

  6. Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · June 25, 1982

    Froud v. Celotex Corporation (1982)

    …dismissal of the punitive damages counts and remanded, ruling for the plaintiff administrators and against the asbestos defendants including Celotex. Under the Illinois Supreme Court's National Bank decision, the Survival Act neither authorizes nor prohibits…

  7. Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · August 12, 1996

    Nelson v. Keene Corp. (1996)

    Elda Nelson and Patricia Dunning sued asbestos companies after Robert Nelson, a former asbestos worker, and Colette Fitzsimmons, a teacher exposed at her school, developed mesothelioma and died in 1987. In April 1987 the plaintiffs had opened Rule…

  8. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · July 2, 1990

    White v. Celotex Corp. (1990)

    Dorothy White, widow of Edward White, and their son Douglas sued Celotex and many other asbestos product makers and sellers in Arizona state court over Edward's death. The defendants removed the case to federal court. According to the family's…

  9. 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…

  10. 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…

  11. 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…

  12. 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…

  13. 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…

  14. 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…

  15. Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · September 11, 1986

    Vigiolto v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)

    Antoinette Vigiolto sued several asbestos product manufacturers after her husband, Christopher Vigiolto, died of pleural mesothelioma in 1981. He served in the Navy from 1943 to 1945 on two ships, and she alleged he inhaled asbestos dust and fibers…

  16. 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…

  17. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · October 5, 1981 · in the opinion

    White v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1981)

    …merger with Johns-Manville Products Corporation; Raybestos-Manhatten Corporation, a Connecticut Corporation; Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, successor by purchase of Kaylo Division of Owens-Illinois Glass Company; Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, a Pennsylvania Corporation; The Celotex Corporation…

  18. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · July 26, 1984 · in the opinion

    Halphen v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1984)

    …for plaintiff-appellee. [\464] Robert S. Rooth, New Orleans, La., for amicus curiae Owens-Illinois, Inc. Before CLARK, Chief Judge, POLITZ and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges. POLITZ, Circuit Judge: This Louisiana diversity case occasions an examination of…

  19. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · March 6, 1985 · in the opinion

    Halphen v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1985)

    …Helm, Pletcher, Hogan & Burrow, Stephen W. Hanks, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee. Robert S. Rooth, New Orleans, La., for Owens-Illinois, Inc., amicus curiae. Before CLARK, Chief Judge, GEE, RUBIN, REAVLEY, POLITZ, RANDALL, TATE, JOHNSON, WILLIAMS…

  20. Court case · Louisiana Supreme Court · February 24, 1986 · in the opinion

    Halphen v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1986)

    …Corp., 258 La. 1067, 249 So.2d 133, 140 (1971). See Elmore v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., 673 S.W.2d 434 (Mo.1984); Turner v. General Motors Corp., 584 S.W.2d 844 (Tex.1979); Carter…