119 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 6
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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 · 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 · 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 · Kentucky Supreme Court · August 24, 2000
Carroll v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (2000)
…s lung cancer claim was not time-barred, which favors the plaintiff over the asbestos defendants (Owens-Corning and others). Asbestosis and lung cancer are separate and distinct diseases, so a cause of action for lung…
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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 · 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 · Louisiana Court of Appeals · March 2, 1994
Atkinson v. Celotex Corp. (1994)
…no manifest error or abuse of discretion, so the nine plaintiffs who appealed (or their heirs) and Faye Myers did not get higher damages or a consortium award against Owens-Illinois, Keene and INA. A jury…
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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 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 · Louisiana Court of Appeals · October 21, 1998
Asbestos v. Bordelon, Inc. (1998)
The court affirmed the jury verdicts for the plaintiffs against Owens-Corning Fiberglas (Kaylo insulation) and Rock Wool (One Shot cement), reversed the judgments against Garlock, A.W. Chesterton and Flexitallic, affirmed the judgments against Abadie…
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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 · Texas Court of Appeals · July 16, 1991
Fibreboard Corp. v. Pool (1991)
Five workers at the Texas Eastman plant in Longview, Texas, or their families sued Fibreboard, Owens-Illinois, Celotex, Flintkote and Garlock, claiming the companies failed to warn of asbestos dangers. The workers were insulators or maintenance…
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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 · Ohio Court of Appeals · December 31, 2007
Penn v. A-Best Prods. Co. (2007)
Eight Ohio workers or their estates sued many companies, claiming asbestos-related diseases from their employment. Hubbard, Siegel and Price had colon cancer; Williams had laryngeal cancer; Ward had lung cancer; Roth, Penn and Harrison had…
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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 · June 25, 1982
Froud v. Celotex Corporation (1982)
…dismissal of the punitive damages counts and remanded, ruling for the plaintiff administrators and against the asbestos defendants including Celotex. Under the Illinois Supreme Court's National Bank decision, the Survival Act neither authorizes nor prohibits…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois · December 22, 2014
Krik v. Crane Co. (2014)
The court granted the defendants' motions (Crane, Owens-Illinois, Marley-Wylain and ExxonMobil) to bar plaintiff Krik's experts from offering "Any Exposure," "Each and Every Exposure" and "Single Fiber" causation opinions, and denied Mobil's…