76 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 4
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York · May 21, 1990
Kreppein v. Owens-Illinois (In re New York Asbestos Litigation, 1990)
The court granted Owens-Illinois' motion for reconsideration, held the widow's claims against it barred by collateral estoppel, and vacated the judgment as to it; it denied the JNOV, new trial and remittitur motions of…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · February 26, 1990
Raney v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1990)
…Circuit affirmed the district court's judgment of about $450,000 for the widow, Edna Raney, against Owens-Illinois, Celotex and Raymark, holding the evidence let the jury find the missing asbestos warnings were a proximate…
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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. 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 · Kentucky Supreme Court · August 24, 2000
Carroll v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (2000)
…s lung cancer claim was not time-barred, which favors the plaintiff over the asbestos defendants (Owens-Corning and others). Asbestosis and lung cancer are separate and distinct diseases, so a cause of action for lung…
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · January 31, 1990
Kraciun v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1990)
Six longtime workers at the E.I. du Pont plant in Clinton, Iowa, and their wives sued makers of asbestos insulation products. The workers said they were exposed through insulation on pipes and boilers, and in some cases through cleaning out machine…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · December 22, 1989
Sholtis v. American Cyanamid Co. (1989)
Two long-time employees of the American Cyanamid plant, Robert Sholtis and Sam Lee, sued asbestos manufacturers and suppliers. Sholtis died at 65 of pleural asbestosis. He had worked as a mill operator, maintenance laborer, pipefitter's helper and…
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Court case · New Jersey Supreme Court · March 25, 1991
Landrigan v. Celotex Corp. (1991)
The New Jersey Supreme Court reversed the Appellate Division, set aside the directed verdict for Owens-Corning and Owens Illinois, and remanded for retrial, so plaintiff Angelina Landrigan won. Under Rubanick, an expert's causation opinion…
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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…
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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. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · August 8, 1991
Kulzer v. Pittsburgh-Corning Corp. (1991)
The Second Circuit reversed the judgment for the plaintiff against Owens-Corning Fiberglas and remanded with instructions to dismiss the complaint as time-barred, because the revival statute's exception applied. Under New York's 1986…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · March 20, 1990
Johnson v. Celotex Corp. (1990)
…including compensatory and punitive damages, against Celotex and Owens-Illinois; one judge dissented as to punitive damages. A trial court may consolidate asbestos cases with common worksites and issues if it uses cautionary instructions and separate…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 25, 1989
Board of Education v. A, C & S, Inc. (1989)
Thirty-four Illinois school districts, including the Chicago Board of Education, sued 78 asbestos makers, distributors and installers. They sought the cost of inspecting, repairing and removing asbestos-containing materials in their buildings, which the Asbestos…
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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 · August 5, 1985
Rosenberg v. Celotex Corp. (1985)
Stanley Rosenberg worked at the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn from 1961 to 1965 and was exposed to asbestos products there. He was diagnosed with asbestosis in 1976 and malignant mesothelioma in 1978. He and his wife sued Celotex in New York…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · March 28, 1986
Roehling v. Nat. Gypsum Co. Gold Bond Bldg. (1986)
The Fourth Circuit reversed summary judgment for National Gypsum and Owens-Illinois on the Huntley Power Station exposure and remanded for trial, but affirmed summary judgment for Celotex and on the DuPont and Ford plant exposures…
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Court case · Missouri Supreme Court · September 10, 1991
Hagen v. Celotex Corp. (1991)
…directing judgment for Owens-Illinois and remanding for a new trial against Fibreboard because the plaintiffs' proof of causation was insufficient. A plaintiff must show through expert testimony that each defendant's product was a substantial…
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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…
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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…