59 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 2 of 3
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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 · Pennsylvania Superior Court · April 11, 1994
DiDio v. Philadelphia Asbestos Corp. (1994)
…asbestosis based on fear of cancer were not compensable, and affirmed the $900,000 judgment against Owens-Illinois and the severance of its cross-claims. Under Giffear, asymptomatic pleural thickening is not compensable and claims for…
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Court case · Washington Supreme Court · April 27, 1989
Sofie v. Fibreboard Corp. (1989)
Austin Sofie, who was 67 and suffering from mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure during his career as a pipefitter, and his wife Marcia sued Fibreboard and other asbestos manufacturers. A jury found the defendants at fault and awarded…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · December 15, 1988
Whatley v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1988)
…award, but modified the judgment to raise Raymark's share from 9.09% to 27.27% of damages because Raymark failed to prove fault by settling defendants Owens-Illinois and Armstrong. Under Texas comparative causation (Duncan)…
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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, 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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · July 15, 1985
Dartez v. Fibreboard Corp. (1985)
…and remanded for a new trial against Celotex, Fibreboard, Owens-Illinois and Pittsburgh Corning, but reversed the judgment against Raymark and dismissed it from the case. Under Texas law, a plaintiff without a medically probable cancer…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · July 1, 1993
Watkins v. Fibreboard Corp. (1993)
Four workers, George Watkins, Lloyd Brannen, Isaac Price Jr. and Harold Barron, sued several asbestos companies in federal court in Texas after years of exposure to asbestos-containing products. At trial, the jury found the defendants' products…
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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 · 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 · U.S. District Court, District of Colorado · February 12, 1987
Rice v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1987)
Ruby Rice sued eighteen companies on behalf of the estate and heirs of her late husband, Norman E. Rice, who developed mesothelioma and died. She alleged he was exposed to asbestos products made or sold by the defendants and that they failed to warn…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · February 5, 1986
Jenkins v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1986)
Wanda Jenkins and other plaintiffs with asbestos-related personal injury suits pending in the Eastern District of Texas sued thirteen companies. Ten of the plaintiffs asked the court to certify a class of all such pending cases. They wanted to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa · July 16, 1998
Harder v. ACandS, Inc. (1998)
Oscar Harder worked from 1956 to 1989 as a utility worker for Iowa Public Service. His duties included maintenance at several power plants, among them overhauling General Electric steam turbines. Each overhaul began with removing thermal asbestos…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · November 25, 1985
Graffagnino v. Fibreboard Corp. (1985)
Steve Graffagnino worked as an insulator at Texaco's Port Arthur, Texas, refinery for about forty years and handled asbestos products made and distributed by the defendants. In 1981 he and his wife sued over his asbestos exposure and settled for…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · August 9, 1988
Hardy v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1988)
Five men, William Hardy, Richard Smith, James Dartez, Cecil Overstreet and John Burke, each sued several asbestos product makers in federal court in Texas, seeking damages for asbestos exposure. The cases were consolidated for trial. The jury was…
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Court case · Washington Supreme Court · August 31, 1995 · in the opinion
Brewer v. Fibreboard Corp. (1995)
…jury returned a verdict in favor of Appellant Brewer for $372,300.00 in general and special damages.\[24\] The jury found no liability against Owens-Illinois Company, but held Fibreboard Corporation, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · September 16, 1993 · in the opinion
Giffear v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1993)
…Inc., Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Fibreboard Corporation, GAF Corporation, v. 48 INSULATIONS, Nicolet, Inc., Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, Armstrong World Industries, Inc., H.K. Porter Company, Amatex, Inc., Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation. Argued June 7, 1993. Filed…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · June 10, 1986 · in the opinion
Morgan v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
…Celotex Corporation, Unarco Industries, Turner & Newall, Ltd., Keene Corporation, and Owens-Illinois Glass Company. Frank ALICE and Theresa Alice, Appellants, v. JOHNS-MANVILLE CORP., and Johns-Manville Sales Corp., and Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., and Forty Eight…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · January 27, 1984 · in the opinion
Doe v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1984)
…Corporation, H.K. Porter, Co., Inc., Southern Textile Corp., A.C. & S., Inc., GAF Corp., Owens-Illinois, Inc., Universal Insulation Company, Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc., Delaware Insulation Co., Crown, Cork & Seal Company, Inc., D.A.R…