254 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 9 of 13
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana · October 31, 2022 · in the opinion
Reulet v. Lamorak Ins. Co. (2022)
…a). In making this assessment, the Court must view all evidence and make all reasonable inferences in the light most favorable to Plaintiffs and Avondale—the non-moving parties. Owens v. Circassia Pharms., Inc., 33 F…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of California · May 13, 2021 · in the opinion
Toy v. Warren Pumps (In re Asbestos, 2021)
…a substantial factor in causing Mr. Toy's injury and death. See McIndoe, 817 F.3d at 1174 (applying maritime law); see also Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., 16 Cal. 4th 953, 968-69 (Cal. 1997)…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas · June 21, 2021 · in the opinion
Petrie v. Novelis Corporation (2021)
…evidence of a quantified defendant-specific dose sufficient to show a doubling of the risk of contracting mesothelioma is not required. See ECF 58 at 16 (citing Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., 941 P.2d 1203…
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Court case · Connecticut Appellate Court · October 13, 2021 · in the opinion
Poce v. O & G Industries, Inc. (2021)
…some injury to body tissue occurs on the inhalation of asbestos fibers and that once lodged, the fibers pose an increased likelihood of causing or contributing to disease. Id., citing Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. United Ins…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Identification of novel COX-2 / CYP19A1 axis involved in the mesothelioma pathogenesis opens new therapeutic opportunities
This was a laboratory study, not a study of asbestos-exposed people. The authors studied two enzymes in human malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) cell lines and tumor samples: COX-2, linked to inflammation, and aromatase (CYP19A1), which makes…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2025
Trends in Pleural Mesothelioma Incidence and Survival in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas in the United States
This was a retrospective study of US cancer registry data (SEER 18 registries, covering about 34% of the US population). It compared pleural mesothelioma in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties. It included 8519 patients aged 20 or older…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2025
Trends in Mesothelioma Mortality in the United States Between 1999 and 2020
This study used the CDC WONDER national death-certificate database to examine U.S. mesothelioma deaths from 1999 to 2020. It did not measure anyone's asbestos exposure or occupation. There were 54,905 mesothelioma deaths, an age-adjusted rate of 7.5…
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Book · 2025
Bad Dust: A History of The Asbestos Disaster (2025)
…asbestos disaster, mainly in Britain, published by Repeater Books in 2025. It opens with the author's grandfather, a carpenter who died of pleural mesothelioma in 1995. Part I covers asbestos mining in South Africa, manufacturing…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 9, 2024
Caligiuri v. AO Smith Corp. (2024)
…establish that its product could not have contributed to the plaintiff's injury; competing expert causation evidence raises a question of fact that precludes summary judgment. Causation; Product Identification; Expert Testimony scraping and cleaning pizza ovens
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · March 6, 2025
Kirby v. David Fabricators OF NY, Inc. (2025)
…restaurants from the 1960s to the 1980s and alleges he developed mesothelioma from asbestos coming from transite stone boards that the defendant supplied and that were associated with pizza ovens made by Bakers Pride Oven Company…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 25, 2024
Savianeso v. Aerco Intl., Inc. (2024)
…Pride met that burden and plaintiff's expert, who did not quantify the secondhand exposure, did not raise a factual issue. Causation; Expert Testimony; Take-Home Exposure brother of a worker who used Bakers Pride ovens
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Asbestos containing materials in schools of Rome and surrounding area (Italy)
…vinyl floor tiles. Forty also had friable ACM, such as boiler insulation, linings of laboratory ovens and centrifuges, and Bunsen burner gauze mats. Crocidolite with chrysotile was found in about 80% of roofing samples, and vinyl…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
Specific Targeting of Mesothelin-Expressing Malignant Cells Using Nanobody-Functionalized Magneto-Fluorescent Nanoassemblies
…3D cell clusters, particles reached only the outer layers. Under flow, they bound almost only to mesothelin-expressing cells. The authors concluded that the approach opens prospects for delivering drugs specifically to mesothelin-expressing cancer cells.
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Court case · Iowa Court of Appeals · May 8, 2024 · in the opinion
Beverage v. Alcoa, Inc. (2024)
Under this specific application, "a land possessor owes a duty of reasonable care to entrants" in two ways applicable to this case. Restatement (Third) § 51. First, through "conduct by the land possessor that creates risks to…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · August 18, 2021 · in the opinion
Kriz v. Air & Liquid Sys. Corp. (2021)
In opposition to Armstrong's motion, Plaintiff argues that a product manufacturer like Armstrong owes innocent persons injured from its defective product, like decedent, a clear duty to warn under New York law, especially in "take…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · January 4, 2023
Shellenberger v. Kreider Farms (2023)
…Superior Court reversed the trial court's grant of summary judgment for Kreider Farms (the employers) and remanded for further proceedings, in favor of the Shellenberger estate. An employer owes an employee, as a business invitee…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · February 15, 2022
Gay v. AO Smith Corporation (2022)
…as employer of an independent contractor. Under Pennsylvania law, a landowner owes no duty to an independent contractor's employee for a danger the contractor knows of, and the retained-control and peculiar-risk exceptions did…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 20, 2021
Khosravan v. Exxon Mobil Corp. (2021)
…defendants, holding they owed no duty of care to Khosravan, and awarded respondents their costs on appeal. A defendant owes no duty to protect workers from asbestos at premises it did not own, possess or control…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Induction of Gamma-Glutamyltransferase Activity and Consequent Pro-oxidant Reactions in Human Macrophages Exposed to Crocidolite Asbestos
Asbestos is the main causative agent of malignant pleural mesothelioma. The variety known as crocidolite (blue asbestos) owns the highest pathogenic potential, due to the dimensions of its fibers as well as to its content of…
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Blog · 2024
Asbestos Dancing at the Tropicana
…2, 2024. Bally's Corporation, which owns it, plans to implode the complex in October to make way for a $1.5 billion ballpark for the Oakland A's, who plan to move to Las Vegas…