34 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · November 20, 1981
Carbonaro v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1981)
The federal court granted Owens-Corning Fiberglas's motion for summary judgment, holding the plaintiffs' asbestos suit barred by the prior state-court judgment for the defendants, so the plaintiffs lost. Under claim preclusion, a final…
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Court case · Texas Supreme Court · November 30, 2000
Pustejovsky v. Rapid-American Corp. (2000)
…was diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma and, within two months, sued Rapid-American, Owens Corning, Pittsburgh Corning and other asbestos suppliers. He later died, and his wife continued the case. The trial court granted summary judgment…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · October 5, 1981
White v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1981)
Five workers at the Newport News shipyard (White, Oman, Walker, Reynolds and Gibbons) sued several asbestos product makers after developing asbestosis. They had worked with asbestos insulation materials building and repairing ships. The district…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · June 10, 1986 · in the opinion
Morgan v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
…Corporation, Turner & Newall Ltd., Certain-Teed U.S. Rubber Co., Inc., Pacor Industries, Celotex Corporation, Amatex Corporation, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Asbestos Textile Institute, Termoid Company, Philip Carey, Garlock, Industrial Products Division, Glen Alden, Inc., Rapid American…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · January 27, 1984
Doe v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1984)
John Doe, later identified as James McGee, and his wife sued Johns-Manville and many other asbestos companies. He had worked with asbestos products since 1955. In 1980 he learned he had pleural thickening caused by asbestos, visible on a chest…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · December 4, 1992
In re Joint E. & So. Dist. Asbestos Litigation (1992)
Thousands of people claiming asbestos injuries from Johns-Manville products were to be paid from the Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust, created under Manville's 1986 bankruptcy reorganization plan. By 1990 the Trust was insolvent. Two…
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Court case · Ohio Court of Appeals · March 15, 2007
Potts v. 3M Co. (2007)
…does not describe where or how he was exposed. It says the insulation manufacturers (Johns-Manville, Celotex/Carey and Owens Corning) had been through bankruptcy. The Edward R. Hart Company was an installer and supplier of…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · May 7, 1986
Silver v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
…here because the death was alleged to result from disease. It relied on its decision in Hyer v. Pittsburgh Corning, which in turn rested on the North Carolina Supreme Court's decision in Wilder v. Amatex…
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · March 21, 1996
Holbrook v. Lykes Bros. SS Co., Inc. (1996)
John Holbrook, a merchant seaman from 1953 to 1991, sued shipping companies and makers and suppliers of asbestos products, alleging that asbestos aboard their vessels gave him mesothelioma. He died in 1993, and his widow, Grace Holbrook, continued…
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Court case · New York Court of Appeals · October 29, 1981
Matter of Steinhardt v. JohnsManville Corp. (1981)
Seven sets of plaintiffs sued Johns-Manville and other asbestos companies. Several sued as representatives of workers who had died. They said the workers' inhalation of asbestos caused injuries. Each case was filed more than four years after the…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · July 8, 1987
Swogger v. Waterman SS Corp. (1987)
David Swogger, a marine engineer who sailed for more than 35 years, died of malignant mesothelioma allegedly caused by asbestos exposure. His executrix, Anna Swogger, sued shipowners under the Jones Act and general maritime law, and that case was…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · April 16, 1990 · in the opinion
Simpson v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (1990)
…E. SIMPSON, Individually and as Executrix of the Estate of David Simpson, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PITTSBURGH CORNING CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant, Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Owens-Illinois, Inc., The Celotex Corporation, Intergy…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas · November 12, 1990 · in the opinion
Cimino v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1990)
…transfer of an insolvent defendant's non-cash settlement obligation to the non-settling defendants under the present circumstances follows the ruling in McNair v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 890 F.2d 753 (5th Cir.1989).
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · May 24, 1983 · in the opinion
Wedgeworth v. Fibreboard Corp. (1983)
…Inc.; Neubauer v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 26 B.R. 644 (E.D.Wis.1983). The careful balancing of interests mandated by the Supreme Court in Landis requires that the stays granted in the instant cases…
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Company document · JM Litigation Chronology · March 1977
Johns-Manville Form 10-K for 1976: Legal Proceedings (1977)
…J-M was a defendant in 271 asbestos suits, including four multi-plaintiff cases on behalf of about 500 former Raybestos-Manhattan employees and nine former employees of Owens-Corning Fiberglas. It had settled 36 cases…
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Company document · JM Litigation Chronology · March 1978
Johns-Manville Form 10-K for 1977: Legal Proceedings (1978)
…more than doubled in a year. The filing describes three groups of cases: four multi-plaintiff suits in New Jersey (about 500 Raybestos-Manhattan workers and an Owens-Corning Fiberglas group); indemnity actions by a former…
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Court case · Kentucky Court of Appeals · March 6, 2009 · in the opinion
Cardinal Industrial Insulation Co., Inc. v. Norris (2009)
…respect to negligence. Inclusion of Rohm & Haas in the apportionment instruction. Norris argues that the trial court committed reversible error by including Rohm & Haas in the apportionment instruction. We disagree. In Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. v…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York · November 30, 1990 · in the opinion
In re Joint Eastern & Southern Dist. Asbestos Lit. (1990)
…Gene Locks of the firm of Greitzer & Locks, the latter having taken part in the evidentiary hearings but not in the preparation of briefs. (3) Codefendant Owens-Corning Fiberglas, represented by the firms of Debevoise & Plimpton…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · January 31, 2007 · in the opinion
Graves v. Riverwood International Corp. (2007)
…causing damages to the plaintiff. See also Adams v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, supra. Analysis According to plaintiffs, the evidence they presented at trial was sufficient for the jury to find that Walter Graves contracted mesothelioma…