390 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 1 of 20
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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 · Virginia Supreme Court · January 10, 1992
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Watson (1992)
The Supreme Court of Virginia affirmed the judgment for Watson's estate against Owens-Corning, upholding the compensatory and punitive damages awarded by the jury. A manufacturer has a duty to warn only if it knows…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 11, 1995
Morton v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1995)
…Morton's consortium award to $30,000, and otherwise affirmed the judgment against Owens-Corning Fiberglas. The consumer expectations test for design defect can apply to asbestos insulation products. Evidence of what the scientific community knew…
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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 · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · June 5, 1995
Schiavo v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas (1995)
The Appellate Division affirmed the compensatory and punitive damage awards against Owens-Corning in favor of the Schiavo plaintiffs, finding the Saranac document error harmless given the small punitive award. A 'day in the life' videotape…
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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 · Wisconsin Supreme Court · October 27, 1999
Sopha v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1999)
The Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed the circuit court's order dismissing the Sophas' mesothelioma action against Owens-Corning and the other defendants as time-barred, and remanded for further proceedings. A diagnosis of a non-malignant…
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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 · California Supreme Court · August 18, 1997
Buttram v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1997)
…holding the accrual test wrong and remanding; this favors defendant Owens-Corning. For deciding whether Proposition 51 can be applied prospectively, a cause of action for a latent disease like mesothelioma accrues when the plaintiff is…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · June 15, 1998
Consorti v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (In Re Joint Eastern and Southern Dist. Asbestos, 1998)
The court granted Owens Corning's motion for a new trial unless Consorti accepts a reduced pain and suffering award of $5 million (a $7 million remittitur), and denied Owens Corning's request to cut the…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · February 27, 1989
Fisher v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1989)
Charles Fisher and his wife sued several asbestos product companies in 1985, claiming his exposure to asbestos had caused asbestosis, cancer, and possibly mesothelioma. The parties settled for $60,000, and the Fishers signed a release of all claims,…
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Court case · Iowa Supreme Court · October 16, 1991
Wilber v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1991)
The Iowa Supreme Court reversed the summary judgment for the defendants (Owens-Corning and others) and remanded, holding the widow's mesothelioma suit was not time barred by the earlier asbestosis diagnosis. Diagnosis of asbestosis does…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · August 24, 1998
Feidt v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
Gerald Feidt and his wife sued several companies in New Jersey state court, including Westinghouse (later renamed CBS), over his mesothelioma. He alleged he was exposed to asbestos while working aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise at the Newport News…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · September 23, 2005
Adams v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (2005)
Thomas Jefferson was one of several hundred plaintiffs suing over asbestos exposure. His claim against his former employer, Cooper/T. Smith Stevedoring, alleged that he worked for Cooper as a longshoreman on the Mississippi River in 1965 and at…
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Court case · New York Court of Appeals · October 24, 1995
Consorti v. Owens Corning (1995)
…York Court of Appeals answered the Second Circuit's certified question in the negative, so Frances Consorti had no loss of consortium claim against Owens-Corning, which prevailed on that question. In toxic substance exposure cases…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · July 21, 1995
Jadlowski v. Owens Corning (1995)
The Appellate Division reversed the punitive damages award (as remitted to $2,500,000 from a $15,000,000 jury verdict) against Owens-Corning and remanded for a new trial on punitive damages, rejecting the plaintiff…
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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 · Washington Court of Appeals · April 28, 1997
Mavroudis v. Pittsburgh-Corning Corp. (1997)
The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment for the Mavroudis plaintiffs against Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. and affirmed the trial court's finding that the pretrial settlements were reasonable. In multi-supplier asbestos cases where the…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · June 30, 1992
Feldman v. Owens-Illinois (In re Brooklyn Navy Yard Asbestos Litigation, 1992)
Workers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and families of those who died, sued makers of asbestos insulation products for diseases including lung cancer, colon cancer, mesothelioma, laryngeal cancer, pleural disease and asbestosis. The jury, in a joint…