369 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 19
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · June 1, 2005
Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Hunter (2005)
The Court of Special Appeals affirmed the Baltimore City judgment: it rejected Owens-Illinois's challenges to the evidence and to the consortium award, and rejected Ms. Hunter's cross-appeal challenging the remittitur and the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York · May 21, 1990
Kreppein v. Owens-Illinois (In re New York Asbestos Litigation, 1990)
The court granted Owens-Illinois' motion for reconsideration, held the widow's claims against it barred by collateral estoppel, and vacated the judgment as to it; it denied the JNOV, new trial and remittitur motions of…
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Court case · Mississippi Supreme Court · December 12, 1990
Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Edwards (1990)
…Edwards, holding his asbestosis claim was not time barred, and rejected the defendants (Owens-Illinois and others) on the limitations defense. In negligence or products liability actions involving latent disease, a cause of action under Miss…
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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…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · April 7, 1992
Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Armstrong (1992)
The Court of Appeals of Maryland affirmed the compensatory verdicts for workers Armstrong and Wood against Owens-Illinois, but reversed the punitive damages awards and remanded for new trials limited to punitive damages. A trial judge…
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Court case · California Supreme Court · August 28, 1997
Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1997)
…new trial for Owens-Illinois. It held that the burden-shifting instruction was error but harmless, and that the tobacco company defense issue was controlled by Richards, so the plaintiffs' judgment against Owens-Illinois was not…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · January 17, 1995
Sparks v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1995)
…upholding the jury's findings that Owens-Illinois's Kaylo insulation was defective and was 100 percent responsible, and holding that Owens-Illinois waived its claim to allocate fault to the Navy. A product such as…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · January 29, 1998
Adams v. Owens-Illinois (1998)
Nine asbestos cases, brought by workers or their estates and families, were tried together in Baltimore City against many companies. The claimed diseases were laryngeal, lung and colon cancer, asbestosis, and mesothelioma. One claim was by Mary…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · December 6, 2016
Ney v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (2016)
…at Bethlehem Steel from 1948 to 1953. A co-worker named only Owens-Illinois's Kaylo pipe covering and Quigley's Insulag spray as asbestos products at that site. Plaintiff sought documents and a corporate witness…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · February 11, 2009
Burger v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (2009)
…Cork, DAP, Pneumo Abex and Owens-Illinois, ruling against Jon and Lois Burger. A plaintiff opposing summary judgment in an asbestos case must produce evidence that he inhaled asbestos fibers from the particular defendant's product…
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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 · Maryland Court of Appeals · August 28, 1996
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. v. Garrett (1996)
…s 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…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · February 25, 1999
Owens Corning v. Walatka (1999)
…noneconomic damages cap to the Walatka verdicts, ruling for Owens Corning and Owens-Illinois, and remanded to apply the cap to all claims; it affirmed the Adams judgments against Owens Corning, ruling for the Adams plaintiffs.…
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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 · Pennsylvania Superior Court · July 1, 1991
Normann v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1991)
The Superior Court reversed the denial of Owens-Illinois' post-trial motion for a new trial and remanded for a liability trial under New York law, a win for Owens-Illinois over the executrix, Francine Normann…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · May 25, 1993
Dempsey v. Pacor, Inc. (1993)
The Superior Court vacated the judgments entered for the six plaintiff couples against Owens-Illinois, Keene and Fibreboard and remanded for a new trial on damages only, with no fear or increased-risk-of-cancer elements…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 12, 2017
Savoie v. Pennsylvania General Insurance Co. (2017)
The court granted Owens-Illinois's re-urged exception of res judicata, holding the 1996 release barred the Savoie family's mesothelioma, wrongful death and survival claims against Owens-Illinois. Under Louisiana law, a signed compromise…
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Court case · Massachusetts Appeals Court · December 11, 1997
Thayer v. Pittsburgh-Corning Corporation (1997)
The Appeals Court reversed the judgment and verdict on liability against Owens-Illinois and ordered a new trial because state of the art evidence had been excluded, but affirmed denial of the plaintiffs' motion for a…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · December 3, 2015
Feaster v. AW Chesterton Company (2015)
The court granted summary judgment to Owens-Illinois, Brand Insulations and Durametallic, and against plaintiff Feaster, because he did not identify any of them as a source of his asbestos exposure. Under New Jersey law, an…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · April 4, 1996
Simmons v. Pacor, Inc. (1996)
…for the defendants in Giffear and reversed the plaintiffs' verdicts in Simmons and Murray, so Owens-Illinois, Fibreboard and Keene prevailed over the three plaintiff couples. Asymptomatic pleural thickening without physical impairment is not a compensable…