20 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Illinois Appellate Court · July 27, 1988
Blazek v. Nicolet, Inc. (1988)
…The appellate court disagreed. It said the Illinois Supreme Court had not defined a reasonable time and that the legislature was best placed to set one. Her suit came about seven years after the statute took…
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · March 1, 2013
Motions for Access OF Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC (2013)
Garlock Sealing Technologies, a maker of sealing products, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in North Carolina in 2010 to set up a trust for current and future asbestos claims. To prepare for a trial estimating its mesothelioma liability, it asked the…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware · October 7, 2011
In re ACandS, Inc. (2011)
…W.R. Grace, Flintkote and Owens Corning. It also asked to intervene in those cases and to reopen the ones already closed. Garlock said it wanted to show that law firms had concealed their clients' exposure…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · September 16, 2002 · in the opinion
Wilson v. AP Green Industries, Inc. (2002)
…that \[her\] contact with it was of such a nature as to raise a reasonable inference that \[s\]he inhaled asbestos fibers that emanated from it." Coward v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 729 A.2d 614…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · July 11, 2002 · in the opinion
Sledz v. Flintkote Co. (2002)
…key question for courts regarding removal under § 1446(b) has been when an action commences [\562] for the purposes of the statute. Zumas v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 907 F.Supp. 131, 132 (D.Md.1995)…