33 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · Mississippi Supreme Court · December 12, 1990
Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Edwards (1990)
…Edwards, holding his asbestosis claim was not time barred, and rejected the defendants (Owens-Illinois and others) on the limitations defense. In negligence or products liability actions involving latent disease, a cause of action under Miss…
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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 · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · July 13, 1995
Higgins v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1995)
The Appellate Division reversed the judgment against Owens-Corning Fiberglas and remanded for a new trial in favor of plaintiff Higgins, and dismissed Owens-Corning's cross appeal on the medical monitoring award as moot. A…
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · September 30, 1999
Porter Hayden Company v. Wyche (1999)
George Wyche, Jr., a longtime worker at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point plant, and his wife Joan sued several companies, including Porter Hayden Company, claiming his asbestosis and lung cancer resulted from workplace exposure to asbestos products.…
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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 · 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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · June 24, 1988
Bauer v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1988)
…Armstrong, Eagle-Picher, Owens-Corning, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh Corning). A denial of a new trial motion based on the verdict being against the weight of the evidence is not reviewable on appeal, and a judgment n…
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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. 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…
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Court case · Indiana Court of Appeals · April 26, 1999
Holmes v. ACandS, Inc. (1999)
Ivay Holmes sued on her own behalf and as personal representative of her husband Henry's estate after he died of lung cancer caused by asbestos exposure. Henry was diagnosed around June 20, 1994, and died about a month later, on July 22, 1994. She…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana · June 23, 1999
Lambert v. Babcock & Wilcox Co. (1999)
Cheryl Lambert sued several companies, including John Crane and W.R. Grace, for the wrongful death of her husband Samuel Lambert. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in October 1992 and died in March 1993 at age 42. Her original complaint blamed his…
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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 · Pennsylvania Superior Court · July 20, 1992
Marinari v. Asbestos Corp., Ltd. (1992)
Anthony Marinari worked as a laborer at Philip Carey Manufacturing in 1928-1929 and at Alan Wood Steel from 1937 to 1972, and was allegedly exposed to asbestos dust at both. A 1983 chest x-ray showed asymptomatic pleural thickening, and he did not…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · January 25, 1985 · in the opinion
Rocco v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1985)
…Rocco, his wife, Appellants in 83-1043, v. JOHNS-MANVILLE CORP.; Johns-Manville Sales Corporation; Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.; Owens- Corning Fiberglass Corporation; Owens-Illinois Glass Company; Pittsburgh Corning Corporation; GAF Corporation; Celotex Corporation; Unarco Industries, Inc.…
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Court case · Minnesota Supreme Court · May 14, 1982 · in the opinion
DeCosse v. Armstrong Cork Co. (1982)
…etc., Respondent, Keene Corporation, Respondent, MacArthur Corporation, Respondent, Nicolet Industries, Inc., etc., Respondent, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Respondent, Owens-Illinois Corporation, Defendant, Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, Respondent, Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., Defendant, Southern Asbestos Company, etc., Respondent, Standard…