9 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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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, 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 · July 26, 1982
Hardy v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)
Dozens of workers, including insulators, pipefitters, carpenters and factory workers, sued many makers and sellers of asbestos-containing products in federal court in East Texas. They claimed exposure to the products and resulting disease. Each…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota · January 11, 1982 · in the opinion
Bertrand v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)
…Thibodeau & Seiler, Duluth, Minn., for Johns-Manville Sales Corp. John Borger, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minn., for Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Duane Arndt, Arndt & Benton, P. A., Minneapolis, Minn., for Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. [\540] James R…
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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 · 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. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · February 28, 1986
Joyce v. AC and S., Inc. (1986)
James Troy Joyce worked for DuPont at its Martinsville, Virginia, plant and was exposed to asbestos as an insulator for about eleven years, ending in 1972. He had pleural thickening on X-rays by 1970. Pleural effusion and asbestosis developed in…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · January 23, 2002 · in the opinion
Hoerner v. Anco Insulations, Inc. (2002)
…the following non-party defendants, each of whom settled with the Hoerners prior to trial, but were nevertheless found liable by the jury for Mr. Hoerner's asbestosis: Owens-Corning Corp., Pittsburg-Corning Corp., Flintkote, Uniroyal…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · March 23, 1984 · in the opinion
Adams v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1984)
…is AFFIRMED. \[1\] Evidence introduced at trial indicated that Adams was smoking as many as 15 cigars a day before he quit in 1974. \[2\] The settling defendants were: Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.; Armstrong Cork Co.…