8 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · November 21, 2018 · in the opinion
Trapp v. CertainTEED Corporation (2018)
…In so doing, appellants are not "expected to prove the scientifically unknown details of carcinogenesis, or trace the unknowable path of a given asbestos fiber." (Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1997) 16 Cal.4th 953, 976.…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · May 11, 2018 · in the opinion
Mack Trucks, Inc. v. Coates (2018)
…a negligent failure to warn action." May v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., 446 Md. 1, 25 n.22 (2015) (citation omitted). In Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Zenobia, supra, the Court noted that Professors Henderson and Twerski …
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · February 10, 2015 · in the opinion
Green v. CertainTEED Corporation (2015)
…Step One Turning to step one, California and Texas apply different standards to determine the issue of causation in asbestos litigation. Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1997) 16 Cal.4th 953 (Rutherford), sets forth the "substantial…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 15, 2019 · in the opinion
Burch v. Certainteed Corporation (2019)
…to prove causation by establishing a reasonable medical probability that exposure to a defendant's product contributed to the plaintiff's risk of developing cancer. (See Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1997) 16 Cal.4th 953…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 20, 2017 · in the opinion
Altman v. Ford Motor Co. (In re New York City Asbetos Litigation, 2017)
…Hayes, Lipe Automation Corp., Lucas Variety Automotive Holdings Co., Mack Trucks, Inc., Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Navistar, Inc., Owens Illinois, Inc., Pneumo Abex Corp., Riley Power, Inc., Todd Shipyards Corp., Volvo Trucks North America, Inc., and…
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Court case · Kentucky Supreme Court · December 16, 2010
Certainteed Corporation v. Dexter (2010)
James G. Dexter, a pipefitter from 1946 to 1984, developed lung cancer and asbestosis and died during the lawsuit. He and his estate sued nineteen companies, later joined by eleven more, over asbestos-containing pipes, gaskets and insulation at many…
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Court case · Georgia Supreme Court · November 30, 2016
Certainteed Corporation v. Fletcher (2016)
…rule, and a defendant seeking summary judgment must show an absence of any evidence of defect. A manufacturer owes no duty to warn third parties, such as family members laundering a worker's dusty clothes, because…
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Court case · Georgia Court of Appeals · July 16, 2015 · in the opinion
Fletcher v. Water Applications Distribution (2015)
…of Georgia "decline\[d\] to extend on the basis of foreseeability" the duty that an employer owes to provide a safe workplace to its employees to encompass potential liability for injuries sustained by any third party…