10 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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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 · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · December 3, 2015
Feaster v. AW Chesterton Company (2015)
The court granted summary judgment to Owens-Illinois, Brand Insulations and Durametallic, and against plaintiff Feaster, because he did not identify any of them as a source of his asbestos exposure. Under New Jersey law, an…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin · August 22, 2014 · in the opinion
Boyer v. Weyerhaeuser Company (2014)
Strict Liability Plaintiffs' strict liability claim against Owens-Illinois is similarly flawed. To impose strict liability under Wisconsin law, the defendant must be "engaged in the business" of selling the alleged defective product. Geboy v. TRL…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · June 23, 1994
Busfield v. AC & S., Inc. (1994)
Alva Busfield and his wife sued many asbestos companies. A jury found that Busfield had an asbestos-related disease, asymptomatic asbestosis or pleural thickening, but that it caused him no harm. The opinion does not describe where or how he was…
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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…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · January 30, 1986 · in the opinion
Lohrmann v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (1986)
…Union Asbestos & Rubber Company, an Illinois Corporation; Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, a Delaware Corporation; Owens-Illinois, Inc., an Ohio Corporation; Owens-Illinois Glass Company, an Ohio Corporation; Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc., an Illinois Corporation; Amchem Products…
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Court case · New York Court of Appeals · October 27, 2005 · in the opinion
Holdampf v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Matter of Nyc Asbestos Litig, 2005)
…C., Donald D. Evans, Arlington, Virginia, Ann W. Spragens and Robert J. Hurns, Des Plaines, Illinois, and Robin S. Conrad and Amar D. Sarwal, Washington, D.C., for Coalition for Litigation Justice, Inc., and others, amici…
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Court case · Delaware Superior Court · August 23, 1983
Nutt v. AC & S., Inc. (1983)
Four consolidated Delaware cases were brought by present or former asbestos workers and their wives. The defendants were two employers, du Pont and Haveg, and a group of asbestos product suppliers. The workers claimed the defendants misled them…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · December 2, 2004 · in the opinion
Holdampf v. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2004)
…the defendants' motions for summary judgment, and the defendants based their appellate argument on the Widera rationale that an employer owes no duty of care to non-employees for injuries occurring off-premises (id. at 752)…
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Court case · Indiana Court of Appeals · January 10, 2002 · in the opinion
Harris v. AC & S., Inc. (2002)
…who worked on the roof and other parts of the Open Hearth." (Serna R. 30). As a mason, he repaired and maintained furnaces and ovens used to make steel. On March 18, 1998, Dr. Mark K…