139 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 1 of 7
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Court case · Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas · January 22, 1997
Sharpless v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1997)
The trial court granted compulsory nonsuits for defendants Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Uniroyal and Harbison Walker Refractories against plaintiffs Dallas Sharpless and Richard Wilson, and issued this opinion explaining the nonsuits for their appeals. In a strict…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · April 14, 1999
Coward v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1999)
The Superior Court affirmed the trial court's denial of Owens-Corning's motions for judgment n.o.v. and a new trial, leaving the plaintiffs' verdicts and the judgment entered for them in place. Where…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · November 2, 1993
Zenson v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1993)
The court granted Garlock's motion for a directed verdict and Owens Corning Fiberglas's motion for judgment as a matter of law at the close of plaintiff's case, ruling for the defendants because plaintiff…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · May 11, 1998
McCauley v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
Bradley McCauley sued Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning and other companies in May 1993, alleging asbestos-related diseases from occupational exposure during work from 1947 to 1986 in construction, as a laborer and plumber. A 1985…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · July 31, 1996
McNeil v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1996)
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed the Superior Court's order to the extent it allowed a new trial on the lung cancer claim (a win for Owens Corning), and affirmed a new trial limited to the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · November 20, 1981
Carbonaro v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1981)
The federal court granted Owens-Corning Fiberglas's motion for summary judgment, holding the plaintiffs' asbestos suit barred by the prior state-court judgment for the defendants, so the plaintiffs lost. Under claim preclusion, a final…
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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 · Pennsylvania Superior Court · March 22, 2000
Lonasco v. A-Best Products Co. (2000)
The Superior Court affirmed the denial of judgment notwithstanding the verdict to Owens-Corning and Garlock on Phase I, and affirmed the grant of a new Phase II trial on Garlock's liability, so the Lonascos…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · April 26, 1999
Greenleaf v. Garlock, Inc. (1999)
…so judgment for the Greenleafs against Garlock and Owens Corning must be entered at the state amount. It also ordered a new trial on Garlock's and Owens Corning's crossclaims against the non-appearing defendants…
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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 · Pennsylvania Superior Court · September 16, 1993
Giffear v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1993)
William Giffear and his wife Paula sued asbestos product makers for physical injury and for fear and increased risk of cancer. Mr. Giffear said he was exposed to asbestos in the Navy starting in 1964, then as a plumber for about ten years, then as a…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · June 26, 2000
Baker v. ACandS (2000)
…Baker's loss of consortium. The opinion does not describe where or how he was exposed. The Bakers settled with Owens-Corning, Pfizer and ACME under pro rata releases, and with the Manville Trust for $30…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania · May 7, 1992
Sealover v. Carey Canada (1992)
…GAF, National Gypsum) jointly and severally liable, deducted the Owens-Corning settlement and a one-sixth Manville Trust share from the verdict, and awarded the plaintiffs Rule 238 delay damages, with some periods excluded. Where several…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · September 3, 1982
Staiano v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1982)
Carman Staiano sued a group of asbestos product makers, including Johns-Manville, Owens-Corning and Celotex, for personal injuries. His wife, Rita, sued for loss of consortium. He alleged he was exposed to asbestos dust from…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · May 6, 1988
Eckenrod v. GAF Corp. (1988)
…Porter, Raymark, Owens-Corning and Garlock, because the widow and co-defendant Pittsburgh Gage did not show the decedent was exposed to those defendants' asbestos products. To defeat summary judgment in an asbestos case, a plaintiff…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · September 21, 1995
Baumgart v. Keene Bldg. Products Corp. (1995)
Mildred Baumgart sued makers and suppliers of asbestos products after her husband, Anthony Baumgart, died of mesothelioma on March 31, 1985. He had worked for Witco Chemical Corporation from 1950 to 1980 and was allegedly exposed to…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · June 10, 1986 · in the opinion
Morgan v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
…Corporation, Turner & Newall Ltd., Certain-Teed U.S. Rubber Co., Inc., Pacor Industries, Celotex Corporation, Amatex Corporation, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Asbestos Textile Institute, Termoid Company, Philip Carey, Garlock, Industrial Products Division, Glen Alden, Inc., Rapid American…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · January 27, 1984
Doe v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1984)
John Doe, later identified as James McGee, and his wife sued Johns-Manville and many other asbestos companies. He had worked with asbestos products since 1955. In 1980 he learned he had pleural thickening caused by asbestos, visible on a chest…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · June 23, 1994
Busfield v. AC & S., Inc. (1994)
Alva Busfield and his wife sued many asbestos companies. A jury found that Busfield had an asbestos-related disease, asymptomatic asbestosis or pleural thickening, but that it caused him no harm. The opinion does not describe where or how he was…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · March 20, 1985
Lowe v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1985)
Eugene Lowe and his wife sued a group of asbestos companies in 1982 over injuries from his work exposure to asbestos. Lowe died in September 1982, and his co-administrators were substituted as plaintiffs. He had worked at various times from 1942 at…