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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · July 13, 1995
Higgins v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1995)
The Appellate Division reversed the judgment against Owens-Corning Fiberglas and remanded for a new trial in favor of plaintiff Higgins, and dismissed Owens-Corning's cross appeal on the medical monitoring award as moot. A…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit · January 18, 2000
Barnes v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (2000)
…court's judgments, upholding the denial of new trials, so the estates of Beckmann and Rogers lost and Owens-Corning won. Under Kentucky's apportionment statute, fault may be apportioned only to parties, dismissed or settling…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · June 5, 1995
Ripa v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1995)
The appellate court affirmed liability and compensatory damages for plaintiff Pauline Ripa against Owens-Corning, but cut Owens-Corning's share to thirty percent and reversed the $5.5 million punitive award, remanding for a new…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · January 31, 1990
Kraciun v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1990)
Six longtime workers at the E.I. du Pont plant in Clinton, Iowa, and their wives sued makers of asbestos insulation products. The workers said they were exposed through insulation on pipes and boilers, and in some cases through cleaning out machine…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · August 28, 1996
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Garrett (1996)
…liability findings and compensatory awards for the plaintiffs against Owens-Corning, Owens-Illinois and Porter Hayden, but reversed the $1.5 million punitive damages award against Owens-Corning in the Scruggs case. A bystander's proof…
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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 · U.S. District Court, District of the Virgin Islands · September 27, 1991
Dunn v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass (1991)
The court denied Owens-Corning's motion for JNOV and for a new trial on liability, but ordered a new trial unless plaintiff Dunn accepted a reduction of compensatory damages from $1.3 million to $500…
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Court case · Louisiana Supreme Court · April 13, 1999
Ruckstuhl v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1999)
Evelyn Ruckstuhl of East Baton Rouge Parish was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 1996. She and her husband sued ten defendants in Louisiana. They alleged she inhaled asbestos dust from her husband's work clothes from his job at an Exxon refinery…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · February 20, 1998
Ruckstuhl v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
Evelyn Ruckstuhl and her husband Richard sued several companies in Louisiana state court. They alleged she was diagnosed with mesothelioma in March 1996 from asbestos exposure in two ways: dust on her husband's work clothes from the Baton Rouge…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · April 2, 2004
Roberts v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (2004)
Wesley Roberts, Jr., a pipefitter from 1941 to 1981, was exposed to asbestos-containing products at the Exxon refinery in Baton Rouge and other sites. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 1994 and died in 1995. He and his wife sued many…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 12, 1998
Arena v. Owens Corning Corp. (1998)
… it remanded for allocation of noneconomic damages between Owens Corning and ACL and otherwise affirmed the judgment for Arena. A supplier of raw asbestos is subject to strict products liability and the consumer expectations test of…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · November 9, 2001
Emery v. Owens-Corporation (2001)
Wayne Bendily, an insulator employed by Anco Insulations, worked intermittently at Exxon's Baton Rouge refinery from about 1965 to 1970. He was diagnosed with asbestosis and sued Exxon as a premises owner, along with others. His wife, Mary, claimed…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · July 27, 1993
Dunn v. Hovic (1993)
…rejected Owens-Corning's challenges to liability for punitive damages, but vacated the $2 million punitive award and remanded for entry of $1,000,000, so Dunn won liability and a reduced award while Owens-Corning…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · May 6, 1996
Viereck v. Fibreboard Corp. (1996)
The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment on the jury verdict for Virgil Viereck's estate and his wife Julia Viereck against Owens-Corning Fiberglas, holding that pre-WPLA law applied and that the evidentiary rulings…
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Court case · Oregon Court of Appeals · April 22, 1998
Purcell v. Asbestos Corp., Ltd. (1998)
The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment for plaintiff (the estate of John Purcell) against Owens-Corning Fiberglas and E.J. Bartells on the defendants' appeal and on plaintiff's cross-appeal, rejecting the claims…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · September 20, 1994
Quick v. Murphy Oil Co. (1994)
The appeals court reversed the $46,000 contribution judgment that the trial court had entered for Owens Corning Fiberglas against Garlock, because Quick's exposure to Garlock's asbestos products was trivial and not a cause…
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Court case · Washington Supreme Court · August 31, 1995
Brewer v. Fibreboard Corp. (1995)
…$21,000 actually received, and remanded for recalculation of the judgment against Fibreboard, Owens-Corning Fiberglas and Pittsburgh Corning at $290,643.56, a result favoring the Brewers. Under RCW 4.22.060, a settlement found…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · April 3, 1997
Anchor Packing Co. v. Grimshaw (1997)
…reversed the judgment against Hopeman Brothers. It otherwise affirmed the judgments for the plaintiffs against Anchor and Owens-Corning. The Maryland cap on noneconomic damages applies to asbestos wrongful death claims arising after October 1, 1994…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia · July 19, 1984
Joyce v. AC & s., Inc. (1984)
The court granted summary judgment to Celotex and the joining defendants (Owens-Corning, Armstrong, Eagle-Picher, Keene, Pittsburgh Corning), holding all of plaintiff Joyce's asbestos-related claims barred by Virginia's two-year statute of…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · June 2, 1993
Jackson v. Anchor Packing Co. (1993)
The Eighth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for all defendants (Owens-Corning, Owens-Illinois, Fibreboard, Keene, Anchor, Chesterton, Garlock, John Crane, Rexnord and Georgia Talc) against the ten Mohawk tire plant workers, because the workers lacked sufficient…