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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · November 18, 1993
Srite v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1993)
The court of appeals affirmed the jury's zero past-damages awards for the workers and wives against Owens-Illinois, Fibreboard, Pittsburgh-Corning and Keene, but reversed the limitations bar against the Spikes plaintiffs and reversed…
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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 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 · 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 · 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 · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · December 22, 1989
Sholtis v. American Cyanamid Co. (1989)
Two long-time employees of the American Cyanamid plant, Robert Sholtis and Sam Lee, sued asbestos manufacturers and suppliers. Sholtis died at 65 of pleural asbestosis. He had worked as a mill operator, maintenance laborer, pipefitter's helper and…
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · August 7, 1992
Blancha v. Raymark Industries (1992)
Frank Thomas served in the Navy from 1951 to 1955. For about nine months he worked as a machinist on two ships at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and was exposed to asbestos products. He was diagnosed with an asbestos-related condition in 1987 and…
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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…
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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 · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · February 1, 2010
Crane v. Linkus (2010)
George Linkus, a Baltimore shipyard machinist, was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma in 2005 and sued John Crane, Inc. and others. He had worked at the Key Highway shipyard from 1952 to 1959, overhauling valves and packing them with dry, powdery…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · November 29, 1993
Angelo v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1993)
Nicholas Angelo, a maintenance supervisor and machinist, and his wife Rayma sued several makers and sellers of asbestos-containing products in federal court in Oklahoma. They alleged he was exposed to asbestos at the job sites where he worked and…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · August 4, 2015
Brady v. Crane Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2015)
Plaintiffs asked the New York County Supreme Court to consolidate thirteen asbestos cases for joint trial in two groups. All but one of the plaintiffs had lung cancer. Miceli and Ward had mesothelioma. Most had died, and Miller and Morgan were…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · June 2, 2004
Torrejon v. Mobil Oil Co. (2004)
Christina Torrejon sued Mobil Oil Company over the death of her husband, Joseph Torrejon, a merchant seaman who died of mesothelioma in 1994 at age 77. He had worked on Mobil vessels from 1941 to 1949 and in 1956 as an oiler, machinist, engineer and…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · October 3, 2003
Hughes v. Olin Corporation (2003)
R.D. Hughes and his wife Letha sued Olin Corporation and other companies over his occupational exposure to asbestos. Hughes had been diagnosed with asbestosis in 1990 and had joined earlier class-action suits, keeping the right to sue if he later…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit · September 26, 1990
Hoffman v. Allied Corp. (1990)
Milton Hoffman and his wife Lillian sued Armstrong World Industries and other asbestos product makers in federal court in Florida. Milton was diagnosed with pleural malignant mesothelioma. During World War II he spent about 14 months as a lathe…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit · January 18, 2000 · in the opinion
Barnes v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (2000)
…used safely, while Kaylo could be used safely. Moreover, in response to discovery requests, Beckmann admitted at least possible exposure to products manufactured by Johns-Manville, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh Corning, and W.R. Grace. Finally, none…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 12, 1998 · in the opinion
Arena v. Owens Corning Corp. (1998)
…Lewis Saxby, a former Owens Corning executive, established that Owens Corning became the exclusive distributor for Kaylo in 1953 or shortly thereafter. In 1958, Owens Corning bought the division of Owens-Illinois which manufactured Kaylo. Appellant…
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Court case · Oregon Court of Appeals · April 22, 1998 · in the opinion
Purcell v. Asbestos Corp., Ltd. (1998)
…The Saranac Lake documents consisted of correspondence between Owens-Illinois officials and Saranac doctors, various summaries, and a 1955 final report of that study.\[8\] Owens contends that the Saranac Lake documents were admitted erroneously because…