981 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 25 of 50
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · May 14, 1998
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Sitz (1998)
The court of appeals reversed the $20 million judgment for the Sitz family against Owens-Corning, holding the trial court wrongly applied offensive collateral estoppel on liability issues, and remanded the case. Offensive collateral estoppel should…
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Court case · Florida Supreme Court · August 26, 1999
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Ballard (1999)
…yes and approved the Fourth District's decision upholding the $31 million punitive damages award for Ballard against Owens-Corning. A punitive award above three times compensatory damages can overcome the statutory presumption of excessiveness under…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · May 26, 1992
Rohrbaugh v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1992)
The Tenth Circuit vacated the judgment for the plaintiffs against Owens-Corning and Celotex because the jury instructions wrongly imposed a duty to warn Mrs. Palmer, and remanded for a new trial, so the defendants prevailed…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · May 4, 1995
Click v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1995)
The appeals court reversed the directed verdict for Owens-Corning Fiberglass and Pittsburgh Corning and remanded for trial, ruling that the Click family had presented enough circumstantial evidence that George Click was exposed to the companies…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · February 14, 1996
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Wasiak (1996)
The court affirmed the trial court's judgment for the plaintiffs (about $1.8 million compensatory and $3.7 million punitive damages) against Owens-Corning, overruling all eleven points of error. Under Alabama law and due…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Colorado · March 12, 1999
Wallic v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1999)
Sondra Wallic sued asbestos product makers and suppliers over the mesothelioma and death of her husband, Frank Wallic, Jr., a pipe insulator. The opinion says he developed the cancer allegedly from exposure to the defendants' asbestos products at…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · May 15, 1998
Porter Hayden v. Bullinger (1998)
…vacated the trial court's apportionment of damages in the Grimshaw and Granski cases, ruling for Owens Corning and Porter Hayden against the plaintiffs, and remanded for further proceedings. A trial court may not withhold from…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · May 3, 1995
Rohrbaugh v. Celotex Corp. (1995)
The Tenth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for Owens-Corning Fiberglas, holding that its earlier decision was the law of the case and the plaintiffs, the daughters of Dorothy Palmer, offered no new evidence. Under the law…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana · December 11, 1990
Knox v. AC & S, Inc. (1990)
The court denied Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.'s summary judgment motion, so the estate of Darrel Knox, the plaintiff, could continue its asbestos suit against OCF. Indiana's occupational disease act makes compensation the exclusive remedy…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · January 18, 1979
Weinberg v. Johns-Manville Prods. Corp. (1979)
The majority held that Owens-Corning Fiberglas was entitled to summary judgment, rejecting Special Term's denial of its motion as premature; Owens-Corning won and the plaintiff and Johns-Manville lost. One justice dissented and…
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Court case · Ohio Supreme Court · April 3, 2008
State EX rel. Pilkington North America, Inc. v. Indus. Comm. (2008)
…Supreme Court reversed the court of appeals' mandamus grant and held that the Industrial Commission did not abuse its discretion in naming Pilkington, successor to Libbey Owens Ford's self-insured claims, as the amenable employer…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · September 30, 1998
Pustejovsky v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (1998)
The court affirmed summary judgment for Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning and Rapid-American, holding the widow's mesothelioma claim was barred by limitations because it accrued in 1982 with the asbestosis diagnosis. Under Texas's…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · January 10, 2023
Wilgenbusch v. Metalclad Insulation LLC (2023)
…Owens Corning (Kaylo) and later Fiberboard (Pabco). A jury found Metalclad liable for design defect, failure to warn, and negligent failure to warn. It assigned Metalclad 7 percent of responsibility and 12 percent each to Owens…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · November 29, 1993
Johnstone v. American Oil Co. (1993)
Daniel Johnstone, a seaman, died of mesothelioma. He and his wife sued his shipowner employers and asbestos product makers under the Jones Act and general maritime law, and his wife and children later pursued a wrongful death claim. Johnstone had…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York · August 3, 1994
In re Keene Corp. (1994)
Dorothy Richter sued Keene Corporation and other asbestos manufacturers in New Jersey state court over her husband's death. The suit alleged he developed mesothelioma through occupational exposure to asbestos. A jury awarded $300,000 for wrongful…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · April 23, 1999
Pittsburgh Corning Corp. v. James (1999)
The Court of Appeals of Maryland affirmed the Court of Special Appeals' dismissal of Pittsburgh Corning's and Owens Corning's appeals, holding that denial of their motions to dismiss for inconvenient forum could not be…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas · July 7, 1993
Behrendt v. GAF Corp. (1993)
…against defendants GAF, National Gypsum, Owens Corning and U.S. Gypsum. A jury award that bears no reasonable relation to uncontradicted losses warrants a new trial, and it cannot be upheld as a compromise verdict where…
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Court case · Ohio Court of Appeals · May 5, 2016
Estate OF Blandford v. AO Smith Corp. (2016)
…strictly liable as if it were the manufacturer because Owens Corning had gone through bankruptcy. The Eighth District followed its earlier decision in Potts. It held that Owens Corning was still subject to Ohio's jurisdiction…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana · April 25, 2017
Coleman v. Anco Insulations, Inc. (2017)
The family of William D. Coleman sued Anco Insulations, Pilkington North America (formerly Libbey Owens Ford) and several insurers. They alleged that Coleman died of malignant mesothelioma on November 8, 2016, from exposure to dust and…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · January 19, 1994
WR Grace & Co.—Conn. v. Dougherty (1994)
The appeals court affirmed the final judgment for the Dougherty plaintiffs against W.R. Grace and Owens-Corning, rejecting their challenges to the jury instructions, the deposition evidence and the sufficiency of the evidence of Grace…