17 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · February 15, 1994
Davies v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1994)
The appellate court reversed the final judgment for Owens-Illinois after a jury verdict and remanded for a new trial, because excluding the Ames deposition was an abuse of discretion that favored the plaintiff, Frances Davies…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · June 30, 1992
Feldman v. Owens-Illinois (In re Brooklyn Navy Yard Asbestos Litigation, 1992)
Workers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and families of those who died, sued makers of asbestos insulation products for diseases including lung cancer, colon cancer, mesothelioma, laryngeal cancer, pleural disease and asbestosis. The jury, in a joint…
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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 · Pennsylvania Superior Court · May 25, 1993
Dempsey v. Pacor, Inc. (1993)
The Superior Court vacated the judgments entered for the six plaintiff couples against Owens-Illinois, Keene and Fibreboard and remanded for a new trial on damages only, with no fear or increased-risk-of-cancer elements…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · March 2, 1994
Atkinson v. Celotex Corp. (1994)
…no manifest error or abuse of discretion, so the nine plaintiffs who appealed (or their heirs) and Faye Myers did not get higher damages or a consortium award against Owens-Illinois, Keene and INA. A jury…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · April 4, 1996
Simmons v. Pacor, Inc. (1996)
…for the defendants in Giffear and reversed the plaintiffs' verdicts in Simmons and Murray, so Owens-Illinois, Fibreboard and Keene prevailed over the three plaintiff couples. Asymptomatic pleural thickening without physical impairment is not a compensable…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · September 18, 2013 · in the opinion
Gillenwater v. Honeywell Intern., Inc. (2013)
Bowes told Gardner that Owens-Illinois currently had "in the pilot plant stage" a new type of thermal insulation, "a hydrous calcium silicate," that, when removed from a mold and dried, formed "a porous mass \[that…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · October 21, 1998
Asbestos v. Bordelon, Inc. (1998)
The court affirmed the jury verdicts for the plaintiffs against Owens-Corning Fiberglas (Kaylo insulation) and Rock Wool (One Shot cement), reversed the judgments against Garlock, A.W. Chesterton and Flexitallic, affirmed the judgments against Abadie…
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Court case · Colorado Supreme Court · February 16, 1993
Fibreboard Corp. v. Fenton (1993)
…partly favoring Fibreboard and Owens-Illinois and partly Fenton. State-of-the-art evidence is admissible in strict liability failure-to-warn claims to show a product was not defective and unreasonably dangerous because the risk…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · May 9, 1991
Sawyer v. Fibreboard Corp. (In re Hawaii Federal Asbestos Cases, 1991)
…the plaintiffs in all four cases, rejecting the appeals of Fibreboard and Owens-Illinois. The military contractor defense does not shield suppliers of ordinary commercial asbestos insulation sold to the Navy, and it would not bar…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · March 28, 1986
Roehling v. Nat. Gypsum Co. Gold Bond Bldg. (1986)
The Fourth Circuit reversed summary judgment for National Gypsum and Owens-Illinois on the Huntley Power Station exposure and remanded for trial, but affirmed summary judgment for Celotex and on the DuPont and Ford plant exposures…
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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 · U.S. District Court, District of Kansas · August 19, 1986
Menne v. Celotex Corp. (1986)
…at his workplace and caused his disease, and awarded $2,500,000. The jury found for Keene and Owens-Illinois. The four losing defendants asked for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, a new trial or a reduced…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · August 4, 2015
Brady v. Crane Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2015)
Plaintiffs asked the New York County Supreme Court to consolidate thirteen asbestos cases for joint trial in two groups. All but one of the plaintiffs had lung cancer. Miceli and Ward had mesothelioma. Most had died, and Miller and Morgan were…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · October 18, 1995
ACandS, Inc. v. Godwin (1995)
…against Porter Hayden. It also reversed all punitive damages awards for insufficient evidence and dismissed Owens-Illinois's appeal. A bystander shows substantial-factor causation for a defendant's asbestos product through the frequency, regularity and…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · December 3, 2018
Rivera v. Huntington Ingalls, Inc. (2018)
Judith Punch Rivera sued Avondale (Huntington Ingalls) and other defendants in Louisiana state court, bringing wrongful death and survival claims for her mother, Dolores Punch. Punch died of mesothelioma on August 15, 2011. Rivera alleged her mother…
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Court case · New Jersey Supreme Court · April 19, 1982
Beshada v. Johns-Manville Products Corp. (1982)
Six consolidated cases were brought by workers, or the survivors of deceased workers, against makers and distributors of asbestos products. The workers said they were exposed to asbestos on the job. They claimed illnesses including asbestosis and…