28 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 1 of 2
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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 · 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…
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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 · 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 · 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…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · April 26, 1999
Greenleaf v. Garlock, Inc. (1999)
…so judgment for the Greenleafs against Garlock and Owens Corning must be entered at the state amount. It also ordered a new trial on Garlock's and Owens Corning's crossclaims against the non-appearing defendants…
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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. 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 · 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…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · July 27, 1988
Blazek v. Nicolet, Inc. (1988)
Concetta Blazek sued a group of asbestos and asbestos product companies after her husband, Kenneth Blazek, died of mesothelioma. He had been exposed to asbestos in 1951 and 1952 while working at the Union Asbestos and Rubber Company in Cicero,…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 30, 2002
Hennegan v. Cooper/T. Smith Stevedoring Co. (2002)
James Hennegan worked from 1965 to 1968 as a deckhand and Jones Act seaman on derrick barges owned by Cooper/T. Smith. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 1997 and died in 1999. He sued, and after his death his wife continued the case individually…
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Company document · 1988
Owens-Illinois's Responses to Plaintiffs' First Interrogatories in Bexley v. Armstrong World Industries (1988)
…appear in its answers. Compare Owens Corning's 1997 answers, which say Owens-Illinois told it in 1956 that the Saranac animals "could develop a mild asbestosis reaction." About this copy Exhibit I (pp. 28–33)…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana · July 8, 1988 · in the opinion
Knox v. AC & S, Inc. (1988)
…Co., 476 N.E.2d 84, 85 (Ind.1985) and the decision in Walters v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp., 781 F.2d 570 (7th Cir. 1986), finding that Indiana's discovery rule applies in asbestos cases…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · July 16, 1991 · in the opinion
Fibreboard Corp. v. Pool (1991)
…It was used in molded pipe covering form, as well as in a block. Owens-Illinois sold its insulation division to Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation effective April 30, 1958. Reuben Pool did not begin work at…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 4, 2020 · in the opinion
Gaddy v. Taylor Seidenbach, Inc. (2020)
…cases, Louisiana juries awarded lesser sums for pain and suffering even in light of evidence that the plaintiff's suffering was a "ten out of ten," Roberts v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 2003-0248 (La. App…
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · December 14, 2020 · in the opinion
Adams v. Ethyl Corporation (2020)
…The relationship between Owens-Illinois and Owens-Corning, if any, was never mentioned or described by either party at trial—at least not until, during its closing argument, Ethyl stated that Owens-Illinois manufactured Kaylo and…
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Company or organization · People and organizations
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 · 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…