8 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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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 · New Jersey Supreme Court · March 25, 1991
Landrigan v. Celotex Corp. (1991)
The New Jersey Supreme Court reversed the Appellate Division, set aside the directed verdict for Owens-Corning and Owens Illinois, and remanded for retrial, so plaintiff Angelina Landrigan won. Under Rubanick, an expert's causation opinion…
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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 New York · July 23, 1993 · in the opinion
Maiorana v. United States Mineral Prods. Co. (In re Joint Eastern & Southern Dist. Asbestos Lit., 1993)
…The Flintkote Company; Carey Canada, Inc.; Fibreboard Corporation; Rock Wool Manufacturing Co., Inc.; Owens-Illinois, Inc.; Turner & Newall, PLC., individually and as successor to Keasbey-Mattison Corporation; United States Gypsum Company; Dana Corporation, individually and as…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · February 27, 1992 · in the opinion
Betts v. Manville Personal Injury Trust (1992)
…Wedron moved to dismiss the third-party action on the ground that plaintiffs' exposure to their products predates the March 1, 1978, effective date of the Illinois Contribution Act (Act) (Ill.Rev.Stat.1989, ch. 70…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · November 20, 1981
Carbonaro v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1981)
The federal court granted Owens-Corning Fiberglas's motion for summary judgment, holding the plaintiffs' asbestos suit barred by the prior state-court judgment for the defendants, so the plaintiffs lost. Under claim preclusion, a final…
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Court case · West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals · October 16, 1991 · in the opinion
Newman v. Richardson (1991)
…Scott S. Segal, Jeffery V. Mehalic, Hostler and Segal, Charleston, for petitioners. Mario Palumbo, Atty. Gen., C. Terry Owen, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for respondent. [\707] NEELY, Justice: Margaret A. Newman, Eloise J. Sims and…