49 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 1 of 3
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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 · Illinois Appellate Court · July 30, 1993
Adcock v. Brakegate, Ltd. (1993)
Affirmed the judgment on the $213,811.79 verdict for the plaintiff executor against Owens-Corning Fiberglas, upholding denial of OCF's motion to dismiss the civil conspiracy counts and the default judgment on liability entered…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Columbia · October 28, 1981
Fearson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1981)
Rita Fearson, as administratrix, sued Johns-Manville and other asbestos product companies after her husband Joseph Fearson died of lung cancer in 1979 at age 57. He had worked as an asbestos insulation installer in the District of Columbia from 1936…
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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, District of Columbia Circuit · July 30, 1982
Wilson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)
Henry Wilson worked as an insulation worker at construction sites in the Washington, D.C. area from 1941. In February 1973 an x-ray showed he had mild asbestosis. In February 1978 he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, and he died in May 1978. In May…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota · January 11, 1982
Bertrand v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)
Eugene Bertrand, an insulator, sued Johns-Manville and many other asbestos product makers in federal court in Minnesota. He said he breathed asbestos dust while working with and near asbestos products and developed pulmonary fibrosis and other lung…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · January 25, 1985
Rocco v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1985)
The Third Circuit affirmed the verdicts against Johns-Manville and Pittsburgh Corning and the denial of new trial and JNOV, but held that payments from non-joint-tortfeasor (Group A) settlements should not reduce the verdict…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 25, 1983
Froud v. Celotex Corp. (1983)
Three consolidated suits in Cook County, Illinois, were brought by the estates and survivors of three people who had been exposed to asbestos insulation products. Two died of peritoneal mesothelioma and one of bronchogenic carcinoma, and the…
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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. 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 Superior Court · September 3, 1982
Staiano v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1982)
Carman Staiano sued a group of asbestos product makers, including Johns-Manville, Owens-Corning and Celotex, for personal injuries. His wife, Rita, sued for loss of consortium. He alleged he was exposed to asbestos dust from…
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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 · 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 · Florida District Court of Appeal · February 12, 1985
Nance v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1985)
E.S. Nance worked in a Norfolk, Virginia shipyard from 1940 to 1945 and was exposed to asbestos there. In May 1976 he was diagnosed with asbestosis and mesothelioma. He sued asbestos companies in Florida in April 1980 and died in Florida in August…
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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 · Minnesota Supreme Court · May 14, 1982
DeCosse v. Armstrong Cork Co. (1982)
Bruce DeCosse, as trustee for the heirs of his father Napoleon DeCosse, sued Armstrong Cork and other asbestos companies for wrongful death. Napoleon DeCosse had worked most of his life as a pipe coverer or insulator and died in Arizona in March…