43 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 3
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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 · 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…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · August 7, 1992
Blancha v. Raymark Industries (1992)
Frank Thomas served in the Navy from 1951 to 1955. For about nine months he worked as a machinist on two ships at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and was exposed to asbestos products. He was diagnosed with an asbestos-related condition in 1987 and…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · July 16, 1991
Fibreboard Corp. v. Pool (1991)
Five workers at the Texas Eastman plant in Longview, Texas, or their families sued Fibreboard, Owens-Illinois, Celotex, Flintkote and Garlock, claiming the companies failed to warn of asbestos dangers. The workers were insulators or maintenance…
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · December 14, 2020
Adams v. Ethyl Corporation (2020)
…general damages to $3,000,000, and rejected both Ethyl's challenges and the plaintiffs' challenge to the jury's allocation of fault to Owens-Illinois. Under Louisiana article 2317, a premises condition is a defect…
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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 · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · February 1, 2010
Crane v. Linkus (2010)
George Linkus, a Baltimore shipyard machinist, was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma in 2005 and sued John Crane, Inc. and others. He had worked at the Key Highway shipyard from 1952 to 1959, overhauling valves and packing them with dry, powdery…