16 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”
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Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · January 10, 1992
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Watson (1992)
The Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed the judgment for Watson's estate against Owens-Corning, upholding the compensatory and punitive damages awarded by the jury. A manufacturer has a duty to warn only if it knows…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 11, 1995
Morton v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1995)
…Morton's consortium award to $30,000, and otherwise affirmed the judgment against Owens-Corning Fiberglas. The consumer expectations test for design defect can apply to asbestos insulation products. Evidence of what the scientific community knew…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · July 13, 1995
Higgins v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1995)
The Appellate Division reversed the judgment against Owens-Corning Fiberglas and remanded for a new trial in favor of plaintiff Higgins, and dismissed Owens-Corning's cross appeal on the medical monitoring award as moot. A…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · June 5, 1995
Schiavo v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1995)
The Appellate Division affirmed the compensatory and punitive damage awards against Owens-Corning in favor of the Schiavo plaintiffs, finding the Saranac document error harmless given the small punitive award. A 'day in the life' videotape…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · June 5, 1995
Ripa v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1995)
The appellate court affirmed liability and compensatory damages for plaintiff Pauline Ripa against Owens-Corning, but cut Owens-Corning's share to thirty percent and reversed the $5.5 million punitive award, remanding for a new…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · August 28, 1996
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Garrett (1996)
…liability findings and compensatory awards for the plaintiffs against Owens-Corning, Owens-Illinois and Porter Hayden, but reversed the $1.5 million punitive damages award against Owens-Corning in the Scruggs case. A bystander's proof…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · July 21, 1995
Jadlowski v. Owens Corning (1995)
The Appellate Division reversed the punitive damages award (as remitted to $2,500,000 from a $15,000,000 jury verdict) against Owens-Corning and remanded for a new trial on punitive damages, rejecting the plaintiff…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 12, 1998
Arena v. Owens Corning Corp. (1998)
… it remanded for allocation of noneconomic damages between Owens Corning and ACL and otherwise affirmed the judgment for Arena. A supplier of raw asbestos is subject to strict products liability and the consumer expectations test of…
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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 · Washington Supreme Court · August 31, 1995
Brewer v. Fibreboard Corp. (1995)
…$21,000 actually received, and remanded for recalculation of the judgment against Fibreboard, Owens-Corning Fiberglas and Pittsburgh Corning at $290,643.56, a result favoring the Brewers. Under RCW 4.22.060, a settlement found…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · April 3, 1997
Anchor Packing Co. v. Grimshaw (1997)
…reversed the judgment against Hopeman Brothers. It otherwise affirmed the judgments for the plaintiffs against Anchor and Owens-Corning. The Maryland cap on noneconomic damages applies to asbestos wrongful death claims arising after October 1, 1994…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · March 22, 2000
Lonasco v. A-Best Products Co. (2000)
The Superior Court affirmed the denial of judgment notwithstanding the verdict to Owens-Corning and Garlock on Phase I, and affirmed the grant of a new Phase II trial on Garlock's liability, so the Lonascos…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · September 16, 1993
Giffear v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1993)
William Giffear and his wife Paula sued asbestos product makers for physical injury and for fear and increased risk of cancer. Mr. Giffear said he was exposed to asbestos in the Navy starting in 1964, then as a plumber for about ten years, then as a…
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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 · Louisiana Court of Appeals · June 2, 2004
Torrejon v. Mobil Oil Co. (2004)
Christina Torrejon sued Mobil Oil Company over the death of her husband, Joseph Torrejon, a merchant seaman who died of mesothelioma in 1994 at age 77. He had worked on Mobil vessels from 1941 to 1949 and in 1956 as an oiler, machinist, engineer and…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit · March 23, 1993
Miller v. American President Lines, Ltd. (1993)
Maurice Moline, a retired seaman, sued several shipowners over his exposure to asbestos while working on their ships. After he died of mesothelioma in 1989, his estate's administrator continued the case under the Jones Act and general maritime law.…