86 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 5
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 21, 1999
McClure v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1999)
The Illinois Supreme Court reversed the appellate court and the jury verdicts for the three plaintiffs, and ordered judgment entered for Owens Corning and Owens-Illinois because the evidence did not prove a civil conspiracy. Parallel…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · August 11, 1998
McClure v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
The appellate court affirmed the jury verdicts for plaintiffs Bicknell, Thacker and McClure against Owens Corning Fiberglas and (in McClure) Owens-Illinois, and remanded only so the trial court could apply setoffs for settlements with other…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · August 14, 1997 · in the opinion
Van Winkle v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1997)
…Administrator of the Estate of Donald Van Winkle, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant and Cross-Appellee (Illinois Central Railroad Company, Defendant). Mark HICKS as Special Administrator of the…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · February 9, 2001
Boldini v. Owens Corning (2001)
…judgment for Sprinkmann Sons Corporation of Illinois and remanded, holding the construction statute of repose did not bar plaintiffs' claims based on Sprinkmann's sale and distribution of asbestos products. The Illinois construction statute of repose…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · April 29, 1999 · in the opinion
Spain v. Owens Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1999)
…Corporation, Raymark Industries, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Fibreboard Corporation, a Delaware [\529] Corporation, Owens-Illinois, Inc., f/k/a Owens-Illinois Glass Company, an Ohio Corporation, Flinkote Company, a Delaware Corporation, and A.E. Staley Company…
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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 · 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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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · September 18, 2013 · in the opinion
Gillenwater v. Honeywell Intern., Inc. (2013)
Bowes told Gardner that Owens-Illinois currently had "in the pilot plant stage" a new type of thermal insulation, "a hydrous calcium silicate," that, when removed from a mold and dried, formed "a porous mass \[that…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 25, 1983
Froud v. Celotex Corp. (1983)
The Illinois Supreme Court reversed the appellate court and affirmed the circuit court's dismissal of the plaintiffs' common law punitive damages claims against the asbestos defendants, including Celotex, because those claims did not survive the…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · August 10, 2018
Jones v. Pneumo Abex LLC (2018)
The appellate court reversed the trial court's summary judgment for Pneumo Abex and Owens-Illinois on the civil conspiracy claims and remanded for further proceedings, ruling for plaintiffs John and Deborah Jones. At summary judgment…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · December 7, 2021
Jones v. Pneumo Abex LLC (2021)
Affirmed the trial court's summary judgment for Pneumo Abex and Owens-Illinois on the Joneses' civil conspiracy claims, after the Illinois Supreme Court remanded for a proper analysis. A civil conspiracy based on circumstantial evidence…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · December 29, 2003
Caruso v. M & O Insulation Co. (2003)
…mesothelioma, which he attributed to asbestos exposure while working at the Dallman plant of the City Water, Light and Power Plant in Springfield, Illinois, from 1950 to 1993. He and his wife sued several companies, including…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · March 1, 2000
Burgess v. Abex Corp. EX rel. Pneumo Abex (2000)
On remand from the Illinois Supreme Court in light of McClure, the appellate court reversed the judgment against Abex and remanded for a new trial, and reversed the judgment against Pittsburgh Corning and ordered judgment entered…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · October 29, 2008
Dukes v. Pneumo Abex Corporations (2008)
Doris Dukes sued Honeywell and others after her husband Merlon Dukes died of mesothelioma in 2005. He had worked at the Unarco plant in Bloomington from 1954 to 1961 and was exposed to asbestos there. No evidence showed any product of Bendix,…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · March 30, 1990
Leng v. Celotex Corp. (1990)
…liability counts against Celotex and the other defendants, refusing to adopt market share liability in Illinois asbestos cases. Illinois does not recognize market share liability in asbestos cases, so a plaintiff who cannot identify the manufacturers…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 25, 1989
Board of Education v. A, C & S, Inc. (1989)
Thirty-four Illinois school districts, including the Chicago Board of Education, sued 78 asbestos makers, distributors and installers. They sought the cost of inspecting, repairing and removing asbestos-containing materials in their buildings, which the Asbestos…
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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 · 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 · 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 · Illinois Appellate Court · July 27, 1988
Blazek v. Nicolet, Inc. (1988)
…The appellate court disagreed. It said the Illinois Supreme Court had not defined a reasonable time and that the legislature was best placed to set one. Her suit came about seven years after the statute took…