36 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 2 of 2
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Parent-company liability
Parent-company liability is the legal principle under which a corporation that owns or controls a subsidiary can be held responsible for harms caused by that subsidiary. In asbestos cases, it allows injured workers or consumers…
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Proof of Claim
A proof of claim is the form a creditor files in a bankruptcy case to state what the bankrupt company owes it and why. In asbestos bankruptcies, most injured people do not file one in the…
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Asbestos Millboard
Asbestos millboard is a stiff, gray board made mostly of asbestos fiber with a binder, used for heat and fire protection in ovens, furnaces, kilns, boilers, stoves, laboratory benches and electrical equipment. It is softer and…
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Luto
…paste-like sealing and insulating material historically used to pack joints, seams, and openings in industrial equipment such as furnaces, ovens, boilers, and chemical apparatus. Many formulations contained asbestos fibers mixed with clay or silicate binders…
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BRAF V600E
…and, when present, often opens the door to specific targeted drug therapies. Origin The BRAF gene was identified in the 1980s as a human counterpart to a viral cancer-causing gene (v-raf). In 2002, a…
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Marinite
…and machinability, and it was widely installed in ships, power plants, ovens, kilns, and laboratory benchtops. Origin The name derives from the product's original marine application. It was developed by Johns-Manville in the 1930s…
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Gross Negligence
…damages. Significance in Asbestos Context For asbestos patients, a finding of gross negligence can substantially increase the value of a case because it opens the door to punitive damages, money awarded to punish a company and…
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MET exon 14 skipping
…If present, it opens the door to oral targeted therapies (MET inhibitors) that often work better and are easier to tolerate than chemotherapy. Asbestos-related lung cancer is treated like other non–small cell lung cancers…
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Non-Occupational Exposure
…job, non-occupational exposure explains how the disease could still develop, and it opens the door to legal claims. Take-home exposure has supported cases against employers who let workers carry fibers home on their clothing…
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Occupational Disease
…proving it is occupational depends on reconstructing a person's work history and linking specific jobs to fiber exposure. This classification often opens more than one avenue for recovery, including personal injury claims against product manufacturers…
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Talc Contamination
…onward brought the term into wide public use. Significance in Asbestos Context For patients, talc contamination matters because it opens an exposure route many people never suspected, everyday consumer products rather than a factory or shipyard…
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Prepackaged Bankruptcy
…looked closely at how votes were obtained and whether some claimants were treated better than others. Significance in Asbestos Context A prepackaged case can mean a shorter pause in lawsuits and a trust that opens sooner…
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Collateral Source Rule
…but under the Collateral Source Rule, the defendant company generally cannot use those payments to shrink what it owes you. The rule varies by state: some jurisdictions have weakened it through "tort reform" statutes that let…
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Motion in Limine
…so they can prepare motions to limit how that information is used. A judge's pre-trial ruling on a motion in limine can change during trial if testimony "opens the door" to previously excluded topics…
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ROS1
…change the fact that asbestos contributed to your cancer. Asbestos can cause lung cancer regardless of the tumor's molecular profile, but it opens the door to targeted oral drugs such as crizotinib, entrectinib, or repotrectinib…
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Treble Damages
…state (consumer protection, fraud, RICO, wrongful death enhancement) opens the door to treble damages in your case. Preserve any evidence of corporate knowledge or concealment (internal memos, industry correspondence, deposition testimony from other cases), because such…