57 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 3
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York · May 21, 1990
Kreppein v. Owens-Illinois (In re New York Asbestos Litigation, 1990)
The court granted Owens-Illinois' motion for reconsideration, held the widow's claims against it barred by collateral estoppel, and vacated the judgment as to it; it denied the JNOV, new trial and remittitur motions of…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · February 27, 1989
Fisher v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1989)
Charles Fisher and his wife sued several asbestos product companies in 1985, claiming his exposure to asbestos had caused asbestosis, cancer, and possibly mesothelioma. The parties settled for $60,000, and the Fishers signed a release of all claims,…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · January 31, 1990
Kraciun v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1990)
Six longtime workers at the E.I. du Pont plant in Clinton, Iowa, and their wives sued makers of asbestos insulation products. The workers said they were exposed through insulation on pipes and boilers, and in some cases through cleaning out machine…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · July 15, 1981
Tysenn v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1981)
The district court granted Owens-Illinois summary judgment on Veronica Tysenn's fear-of-disease claim, on Eagle-Picher's and Pacor's cross-claims, and on Anthony Tysenn's claims to the extent the Pennsylvania…
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · August 8, 1991
Kulzer v. Pittsburgh-Corning Corp. (1991)
The Second Circuit reversed the judgment for the plaintiff against Owens-Corning Fiberglas and remanded with instructions to dismiss the complaint as time-barred, because the revival statute's exception applied. Under New York's 1986…
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · April 14, 1995
Kirk v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1995)
…judgment for plaintiff Sarah Kirk against Owens-Corning and remanded for a new trial on damages and liability, because the district court refused to strike two biased jurors for cause, impairing Owens-Corning's peremptory challenges…
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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 · 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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · September 22, 1987
In re Asbestos Litigation (1987)
…which was a loss for the manufacturers (Raymark, Owens-Illinois, GM and others) and a win for the plaintiffs. Common law decisions of a state's highest court are subject to equal protection review under the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Colorado · March 13, 1989
Miller v. Celotex Corp. (1989)
…Eagle-Picher, Keene and Owens-Illinois because plaintiff Raymond Miller's asbestos claim was filed after Colorado's three-year limitations period expired. Under Colorado's products liability statute, a claim arises when the plaintiff knows…
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit · April 13, 1989
Kaiser v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1989)
Sol Kaiser, a Navy veteran, and his wife and children sued several asbestos manufacturers in federal court in Puerto Rico for harm from his asbestos exposure. Kaiser served from 1948 to 1952, repairing insulated pipes on destroyers, where he cut and…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit · March 27, 1989
Dube v. Pittsburgh Corning (1989)
Joan Dube died in 1984 of mesothelioma. From age nine until her marriage (1959 to 1973) she was exposed to asbestos dust carried home on the work clothes of her father, who worked as a pipe insulator at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery,…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · November 28, 1988
Menne v. Celotex Corp. (1988)
Mary Menne, as personal representative of her husband Donald Menne's estate, sued several asbestos product makers after he developed mesothelioma. Menne had worked as a pipefitter at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington in the 1940s, next to…
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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 District Court of Appeal · February 5, 1985
Meehan v. Celotex Corp. (1985)
Carmella Meehan, as personal representative of her husband Charles Meehan's estate, sued Celotex and other asbestos product makers, claiming their products caused his death. Charles worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard from 1942 to 1945, where he was…
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Court case · Colorado Supreme Court · September 16, 1991
Miller v. Armstrong World Industries (1991)
Raymond Miller sued several asbestos product makers in federal court in 1987. He said exposure to their products caused asbestosis. The dissent says he worked as an insulator in New Jersey from 1946 to 1950. He also sought damages for increased risk…