3,673 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 5 of 184
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · February 27, 1986
Kisor v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
The Ninth Circuit reversed the judgment entered on a jury verdict for Owens-Illinois and remanded for a new trial, ruling for Kisor's estate, because the district court wrongly admitted evidence of the manufacturer's…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 12, 2017
Savoie v. Pennsylvania General Insurance Co. (2017)
The court granted Owens-Illinois's re-urged exception of res judicata, holding the 1996 release barred the Savoie family's mesothelioma, wrongful death and survival claims against Owens-Illinois. Under Louisiana law, a signed compromise…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · July 15, 1981
Tysenn v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1981)
The district court granted Owens-Illinois summary judgment on Veronica Tysenn's fear-of-disease claim, on Eagle-Picher's and Pacor's cross-claims, and on Anthony Tysenn's claims to the extent the Pennsylvania…
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Court case · Massachusetts Appeals Court · December 11, 1997
Thayer v. Pittsburgh-Corning Corporation (1997)
The Appeals Court reversed the judgment and verdict on liability against Owens-Illinois and ordered a new trial because state of the art evidence had been excluded, but affirmed denial of the plaintiffs' motion for a…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · December 3, 2015
Feaster v. AW Chesterton Company (2015)
The court granted summary judgment to Owens-Illinois, Brand Insulations and Durametallic, and against plaintiff Feaster, because he did not identify any of them as a source of his asbestos exposure. Under New Jersey law, an…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 4, 2020
Gaddy v. Taylor Seidenbach, Inc. (2020)
…Owens-Illinois was liable for Dr. Gaddy's asbestos exposure at International Paper. A jury verdict may be set aside under Rule 50(b) only if no reasonable jury could have found otherwise. Testimony that Owens…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin · August 29, 2014
Ahnert v. Brand Insulation Inc. (2014)
The court granted Owens-Illinois's motion to dismiss, holding that the prior with-prejudice dismissal of the 2010 asbestosis suit barred Beverly Ahnert's 2013 mesothelioma suit against Owens-Illinois. Under Wisconsin law, claim preclusion…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · July 1, 2015
McALVEY v. Atlas Copco Compressors, LLC (2015)
The district court denied Owens-Illinois, Inc.'s motion for summary judgment, finding enough circumstantial evidence of exposure for plaintiff McAlvey's claim to go forward. Under Illinois and maritime law, a plaintiff may use circumstantial…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · December 22, 1989
Sholtis v. American Cyanamid Co. (1989)
Two long-time employees of the American Cyanamid plant, Robert Sholtis and Sam Lee, sued asbestos manufacturers and suppliers. Sholtis died at 65 of pleural asbestosis. He had worked as a mill operator, maintenance laborer, pipefitter's helper and…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · December 19, 2019
Jones v. Pneumo Abex LLC (2019)
The Illinois Supreme Court reversed the appellate court's reinstatement of the civil conspiracy claims against Owens-Illinois and Pneumo Abex and remanded to the appellate court to review the circuit court's summary judgment for…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 21, 1944
U. E. Bowes to Leroy U. Gardner Asking for a Hazard Study of the Berlin Plant Material (1944)
…of November 21, 1944, from U. E. Bowes, director of research at the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, to Dr. Leroy U. Gardner of the Saranac Laboratory, after a meeting in Pittsburgh with Gardner and A. C…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · February 12, 1943
U. E. Bowes to Leroy U. Gardner Asking Saranac to Test a Hydrous Calcium Silicate (1943)
What it shows This is where the Owens-Illinois and Saranac correspondence about Kaylo begins. From the start, Bowes asked about the people who would install the product as well as those who made it. Gardner…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · December 12, 1950
W. G. Hazard to Arthur J. Vorwald on a Kaylo Health Brochure (1950)
What it shows By this time Saranac had told Owens-Illinois that Kaylo dust caused asbestosis in animals (Vorwald's letter of November 16, 1948). The letter shows the company planning to use the laboratory's…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · November 10, 1949
W. G. Hazard to J. F. McMahon Sending Kaylo Boxcar Dust for Analysis (1949)
…two-page letter of November 10, 1949, from W. G. Hazard of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company to J. F. McMahon, managing director of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation of America. Hazard explained that the Saranac Laboratory…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · May 2, 1950
W. G. Hazard to John F. McMahon Asking for More Copies of the Foundation's Abstracts (1950)
…Hazard of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company's Industrial Relations Division to John F. McMahon of the Industrial Hygiene Foundation. Hazard noted that the foundation had for some years mailed Owens-Illinois 22 copies of its…
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Court case · New Jersey Supreme Court · March 25, 1991
Landrigan v. Celotex Corp. (1991)
The New Jersey Supreme Court reversed the Appellate Division, set aside the directed verdict for Owens-Corning and Owens Illinois, and remanded for retrial, so plaintiff Angelina Landrigan won. Under Rubanick, an expert's causation opinion…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · March 3, 1997
Kurak v. AP Green Refractories Co. (1997)
The Appellate Division reversed the judgment against Owens-Illinois, holding it was entitled to judgment in its favor. It affirmed the finding of liability against Owens-Corning Fiberglas, but ordered a new trial on damages, or…