3,673 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 7 of 184
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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, Third Circuit · August 7, 1992
Blancha v. Raymark Industries (1992)
Frank Thomas served in the Navy from 1951 to 1955. For about nine months he worked as a machinist on two ships at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and was exposed to asbestos products. He was diagnosed with an asbestos-related condition in 1987 and…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · July 16, 1991
Fibreboard Corp. v. Pool (1991)
Five workers at the Texas Eastman plant in Longview, Texas, or their families sued Fibreboard, Owens-Illinois, Celotex, Flintkote and Garlock, claiming the companies failed to warn of asbestos dangers. The workers were insulators or maintenance…
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Court case · Colorado Court of Appeals · September 12, 1991
Fenton v. Fibreboard Corp. (1991)
The Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed the $190,000 jury verdict for the plaintiff widow against Fibreboard and Owens-Illinois and the partial set-off ruling, but reversed the costs award and remanded for findings on…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · September 22, 1994
Dumin v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1994)
The Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment for Owens-Corning Fiberglas, holding that the trial court correctly directed a verdict against Dumin on exposure to OCF Kaylo aboard the Pocono because the evidence was insufficient. Even…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · August 31, 2017
Krik v. Exxon Mobil Corp. (2017)
The Seventh Circuit affirmed the judgment for Exxon Mobil and Owens-Illinois after a jury found cigarettes were the sole cause of Krik's lung cancer, holding that excluding Dr. Frank's causation testimony and the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 14, 1994
Coates v. AC and S, Inc. (1994)
…admitted the OSHA and EPA publications, and denied Owens-Corning's motions on third-party medical payments, mental anguish and reverse bifurcation. Pre-comparative-fault law and equal ("by heads") apportionment governed the wrongful death claim…
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Court case · Ohio Supreme Court · October 14, 1987
Goldman v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1987)
The executrix of Roy Goldman's estate sued Johns-Manville and many other asbestos companies over Goldman's death. Goldman had worked at the Sherlock Bakery in Toledo, Ohio. The plaintiff could not identify which products at the bakery contained…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · August 5, 1985
Rosenberg v. Celotex Corp. (1985)
Stanley Rosenberg worked at the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn from 1961 to 1965 and was exposed to asbestos products there. He was diagnosed with asbestosis in 1976 and malignant mesothelioma in 1978. He and his wife sued Celotex in New York…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · August 31, 2012
Menssen v. Pneumo Abex Corporation (2012)
Jayne Menssen sued Abex and Honeywell (as successor to Bendix), among others, over pleural mesothelioma she attributed to asbestos exposure while working at Union Asbestos and Rubber Company (UNARCO) from 1967 to 1969. She claimed they conspired…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · October 16, 2007
Garcia v. Duro Dyne Corporation (2007)
Genaro Garcia and his wife Delia sued many companies, alleging he developed mesothelioma from asbestos-containing products he encountered while working in the sheet metal industry. After settling with most defendants, they tried the case against…
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Court case · Missouri Court of Appeals · June 4, 1996
Nugent v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Inc. (1996)
The Missouri Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment on the jury verdict for Owens-Corning Fiberglas and ACandS, rejecting the widow's claims of trial error (one judge dissented as to the Hazard deposition). A trial…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · June 6, 2013
Joyner v. AC & R. Insulation Co. (2013)
…for reconsideration by Crane Co. and Owens-Illinois as moot. A plaintiff may use a Rule 15(a) amendment to disclaim damages for one product and so avoid federal officer jurisdiction. A defendant that did not…
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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 · Ohio Court of Appeals · December 31, 2007
Penn v. A-Best Prods. Co. (2007)
Eight Ohio workers or their estates sued many companies, claiming asbestos-related diseases from their employment. Hubbard, Siegel and Price had colon cancer; Williams had laryngeal cancer; Ward had lung cancer; Roth, Penn and Harrison had…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · September 21, 2015
Kochera v. General Electric Company (2015)
The district court denied General Electric's motion in limine, joined by Owens-Illinois and John Crane, to exclude plaintiff Kochera's medical expert Dr. Vuskovich, so the plaintiff won the ruling. A physician board certified…
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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, Seventh Circuit · October 3, 1995
Barnes v. Keene Corp. (1995)
…and remanded for judgment against the four remaining defendants (Keene, Manville, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Owens-Illinois), but affirmed the single judgment in all other respects, so widow Ruth Barnes won on liability and lost on the…
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Court case · Missouri Supreme Court · September 10, 1991
Hagen v. Celotex Corp. (1991)
…directing judgment for Owens-Illinois and remanding for a new trial against Fibreboard because the plaintiffs' proof of causation was insufficient. A plaintiff must show through expert testimony that each defendant's product was a substantial…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · May 18, 1990
Howell v. Celotex Corp. (1990)
Joseph Howell and his wife sued Celotex, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh-Corning, GAF, Keene and Owens-Corning in federal court in Pennsylvania over asbestos-related harm. Howell had pleural thickening, a scarring of the lung lining linked…