24 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · August 28, 1996
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Garrett (1996)
…s liability findings and compensatory awards for the plaintiffs against Owens-Corning, Owens-Illinois and Porter Hayden, but reversed the $1.5 million punitive damages award against Owens-Corning in the Scruggs case. A bystander's…
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · April 3, 1997
Anchor Packing Co. v. Grimshaw (1997)
…reversed the judgment against Hopeman Brothers. It otherwise affirmed the judgments for the plaintiffs against Anchor and Owens-Corning. The Maryland cap on noneconomic damages applies to asbestos wrongful death claims arising after October 1, 1994…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · August 29, 1990
Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Balbos (1990)
The Court of Special Appeals reversed the punitive damages awards for the Knuckles estate against Eagle-Picher and Owens-Illinois and affirmed all other judgments for the plaintiffs against the manufacturer and installer defendants. A jury…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · April 10, 1992
Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Balbos (1992)
…and it ordered a new trial on punitive damages against Owens-Illinois and Eagle-Picher. A nonmanufacturing supplier-installer of asbestos is held to a 'should have known' standard in a negligent failure-to-warn claim…
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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 · Maryland Court of Appeals · October 18, 1995
ACandS, Inc. v. Godwin (1995)
…against Porter Hayden. It also reversed all punitive damages awards for insufficient evidence and dismissed Owens-Illinois's appeal. A bystander shows substantial-factor causation for a defendant's asbestos product through the frequency, regularity and…
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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 · Louisiana Court of Appeals · October 27, 2004
Cichirillo v. Avondale Industries (2004)
…trial court's ruling that Cichirillo's claim against Northrop Grumman (Avondale), Flintkote, Territo, Owens-Illinois, Uniroyal, Hopeman Brothers and Charles Johnson was prescribed, and remanded the case for further proceedings. A timely suit in a…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · June 2, 2004
Torrejon v. Mobil Oil Co. (2004)
Christina Torrejon sued Mobil Oil Company over the death of her husband, Joseph Torrejon, a merchant seaman who died of mesothelioma in 1994 at age 77. He had worked on Mobil vessels from 1941 to 1949 and in 1956 as an oiler, machinist, engineer and…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · December 22, 1994 · in the opinion
Goss v. American Cyanamid Co. (1994)
…eighty-five percent liability against Porter Hayden and fifteen percent liability against Madsen & Howell, with no liability against Owens-Illinois. The jury awarded Goss $56,500 in damages for pain and suffering and $1.00 in…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · April 27, 1995 · in the opinion
ACandS, Inc. v. Asner (1995)
…all of the other companies settled, became bankrupt, or were dismissed from the case. AC & S was dismissed from the Payne action. Appellants cross-claimed for contribution against Owens-Illinois, Inc., GAF, Inc., Pittsburgh Corning Corporation…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · September 9, 2005 · in the opinion
National Union Fire Insurance Company OF Pittsburgh v. Porter Hayden Company (2005)
…4th 645, 689 (Cal. 1995) (holding that the continuous injury trigger of coverage should be applied to third party claims of continuous or progressively deteriorating bodily injury or property damage); Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. United Ins…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware · December 21, 2012 · in the opinion
In re the Flintkote Company (2012)
…2010 or September 2011. They filed no post-trial briefs, and counsel for Owens filed a withdrawal of appearance in this case on February 17, 2011. Doc. No. 5688. Accordingly, Owens-Illinois, Inc. has abandoned its…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware · December 21, 2012 · in the opinion
In re Flintkote Co. (2012)
…2010 or September 2011. They filed no post-trial briefs, and counsel for Owens filed a withdrawal of appearance in this case on February 17, 2011. Doc. No. 5688. Accordingly, Owens-Illinois, Inc. has abandoned its…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · January 28, 1998
Re' v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
Diana Re' sued Owens-Corning, Garlock, W.R. Grace, Flintkote and others in Orleans Parish. She alleged she developed mesothelioma from asbestos dust carried home on her father's work clothes during her childhood, from 1963…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · May 15, 1998
Porter Hayden v. Bullinger (1998)
…vacated the trial court's apportionment of damages in the Grimshaw and Granski cases, ruling for Owens Corning and Porter Hayden against the plaintiffs, and remanded for further proceedings. A trial court may not withhold from…