Products Liability - Asbestos - Mesothelioma - Plaintiff, a World War II U.S. Navy veteran and former General Electric worker claimed that he developed mestothelioma from exposure to asbestos while working for John Crane as a steamfitter.... More...   $4400000 (08-30-2001 - CA)

From approximately 1946 until 1982, the decedent, Robert King, worked for various pipefitting contractors at large construction jobsites in the Chicago area. As a pipefitter, the decedent installed pipe that connected to vessels and heat exchangers. Defendants, Paul J. Krez Company (Krez) and Brand Insulations, Inc. (Brand), were insulation contractors at some of decedent's jobsites. As insulation... More...   $0 (06-22-2001 - IL)

Products Liability - Asbestos - Failure to warn products liability claim by 70-year-old insulation worker and his wife claimed that he developed mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer associated with smoking and asbestos. Plaintiff claimed that defendants did not warn them of the dangers associated asbestos.... More...   $8000000 (05-17-2001 - MN)

Exxon denied that it had acted wrongfully based upon the state of knowl... More...   $9525000 (11-10-2000 - LA)

Products Liability - Asbestos/Mesothelioma... More...   $9875000 (06-20-2000 - NY)

Products Liability - Earlon Nunez, age 49, died of mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure.... More...   $1200000 (03-02-2000 - LA)

Defendant denied wrongdoing but failed to appear at trial.... More...   $1300000 (02-29-2000 - OH)

Products Liability - Asbestos - Malignant Mesothelioma - Wrongful Death - Joseph Cicchillo, a Trumbull County LTV Steel welder died in 1998 at the age of 78 as a result of exposure to asbestos-containing pip insulation manufactured by Pittsburgh Corning Corporation. Cicchillo's family claimed that the asbestos was unreasonably dangerous and that Pittsburgh Corning failed to warn of that danger wi... More...   $1600000 (02-07-2000 - OH)

Products liability - asbestos. Plaintiff claimed that he suffered from Mesothelioma as a result of being exposed to asbestos.... More...   $4595000 (08-09-1999 - TX)

Products liability - wrongful death - asbestos. Family of a custodian who worked for the El Paso Independent School District from 1962 to 1993 brough wrongful death claim against defendants. Mr. Sanchez died from an asbestos disease called Mesothelioma. He was exposed to Gold Bond Joint Compound, a National Gypsum Company product, and Durabond Joint Compound, a United States Gypsum Company prod... More...   $6500000 (08-06-1999 - TX)

Wrongful Death - Asbestos - In 1996 Robert Ehret (Ehret), a journeyman floor covering contractor, was diagnosed with terminal pericardial mesothelioma. He filed suit against several flooring manufacturers and distributors, including Congoleum Corporation (Congoleum). He alleged that asbestos in various flooring products he had ... More...   $3322551 (08-04-1999 - CA)

Products liability - asbestosis. Fifty-one year old machinist who worked on submarines developed mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of his lung which he claimed was caused by the asbestos. Hicks was in the Navy from 1965 to 1985 when he retired as a chief petty officer.... More...   $5100000 (07-07-1999 - CA)

Plaintiffs brought claims against asbestos manufacturers and suppliers for their asbestos related injuries, namely mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is a non-curable cancer of the pleura outside the lung related, in North America, only to asbestos. Both plaintiffs were plumbers, working from the late '50s/ early '60s to the mid-1970's in Mr. Fetzer's case, and to the date of his diagnosis, 6/97 in Mr. ... More...   $4000000 (06-11-1999 - PA)

Negligence - Strict Liability - Asbestos - Howard and his wife filed the instant lawsuit in March 1995. The complaint alleged seven causes of action based on various theories including negligence, strict liability, emotional distress, intentional tort, conspiracy and loss of consortium; and sought general, special and punitive damages... More...   $0 (05-26-1999 - CA)

Products liability and negligence - asbestos filtered cigarettes. Plaintiff, age 75, was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer link with asbestos. Plaintiff had smoked a pack of Kent cigarettes a day for 8 years before quitting about 37 years ago. Defendants argued that the cigarettes did not release asbestos into the smoke. Connor had also sued his former employer Owens Corning fo... More...   $2200000 (04-30-1999 - MD)

Walter Coward , Joseph and Loretta Poplaski, Albert and Loretta Vecchione, and William Watts (Plaintiffs) commenced the underlying actions following medical diagnoses of mesothelioma or carcinoma in each of the male plaintiffs. Owens-Corning did not dispute Plaintiffs' claim that these conditions were caused by exposure to asbestos dust and fibers the men encountered in their respective places of ... More...   $6018000 (04-14-1999 - PA)

Albert J. Baker and his wife, Suzanne, filed a civil action under theories of strict liability and negligence against several manufacturers and/or sellers of asbestos-containing products, seeking damages resulting from Mr. Baker's exposure to asbestos and Mrs. Baker's loss of consortium. The Bakers' first complaint, filed on January 17, 1989, alleged that Mr. Baker had pleural plaques on his lungs... More...   $2200000 (03-30-1999 - PA)

Products Liability - Asbestos - Frederick Moss, Martin Easter, and both their spouses brought this lawsuit against twenty-four defendants, most of whom were manufacturers of asbestos containing products. Among the named defendants was NARCO, a company that makes bricks and refractory products used for their heat resistant capabilities in high temperature settings such as furnaces an... More...   $0 (03-11-1999 - TX)

Products liability - asbestos - wrongful death - mesothelioma - Plaintiff sought to recover for the death of her husband who died from mesothelioma. She claimed that defendants’ asbestos containing products were unreasonably dangerous and that defendants failed to warn of the dangers associated with handling the products.... More...   $4000000 (11-06-1998 - NY)

In 1983 respondent brought an action for asbestos-related injuries against multiple specifically named and fictitious ... More...   $280000 (09-15-1998 - CA)

Worker's Compensation - Asbestos Exposure - Plaintiff's are asserting that their spouse's death was the result of Mesothelioma resulting from asbestos exposure during their employment. Before their deaths, the decedents had received worker's compensation benefits. Plaintiffs sued various asbestos manufacturers. The defendants sought liens on the plaintiff's potential recoveries. Plaintiffs obt... More...   $0 (08-18-1998 - MI)

Products liability and neglgience claims against multiple asbestos manufacturers and distributors by plaintiff who developed mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lungs, as a result of inhaling airborne asbestos fibers. He was exposed to asbestos during his 35-year employment with several employers at numerous job sites. It is possible that a single exposure to asbestos may later c... More...   $0 (04-22-1998 - OR)

Products liability and negligence - asbestos. Plaintiff claimed that defendant supplied Eagle Pitcher Industries, Inc. with asbestos which it used to manufacture an insulating cement called Eagle 66 or Super 66. Mitchell contracted asbestosis and mesothelioma. The claimed asbestos exposure, partly from EPI cement, while working for three to six months in 1942 or 1943 as a tack welder at Moore D... More...   $835119 (03-17-1998 - CA)

Product Libility - Estate claimed that Russell Meinert Sr. developed mesothelioma due to a prolonged exposure to defendant's asbestos which resulted in his death.... More...   $4788000 (12-01-1997 - TX)

Products liability - asbestosis - wrongful death. Eugene Arthur died of mesothelioma in December, 1994. Donald Herbster died of the same disease in 1996. Both men were exposed to asbestos at work over a number of years.... More...   $8100000 (03-17-1997 - DE)