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11 Aug 2020, 2:48 am by Schachtman
As documented by the plaintiffs’ own expert witness, Barry Castleman: “In 1964, Johns-Manville (“J-M”) was among the first companies to provide warnings with its asbestos-containing products, namely its asbestos insulation. [read post]
3 Aug 2015, 12:11 pm by Dheeraj K. Singhal
Some companies do thrive under Chapter 11 and there are a number of success stories like that of Johns-Manville, General Motors, United Airlines, Delta Airlines and Eddie Bauer. [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 9:34 am
Twenty seven years after Johns Manville sank under the wave of litigation unleashed by Borel the practical effect of the ruling continues to drive companies into bankruptcy. [read post]
11 Oct 2017, 1:37 pm by Asbestos Legal Center
ASARCO supplied and sold asbestos fiber to a number of former “Fortune 500 Companies,” including Johns Manville, General Motors, and Owens Corning, as well as other Nationwide “specialized” asbestos companies, including Garlock Gaskets. [read post]
22 Aug 2017, 9:55 am
Grace & Corporation Armstrong World Industries Johns-Manville Celotex Corporation Fibreboard Corporation National Gypsum Corporation Flintkote Company Unarco Southwest Electric Power Company Throughout the past century, asbestos had been manufacturers' favorite material, with more than 3.000 products containing the mineral at the time. [read post]
7 Jul 2013, 11:39 am by Schachtman
Starting in 1969, Webb worked for a plumbing supply company, Pyramid Pipe and Supply (Pyramid), where he regularly handled a Johns-Manville (JM) asbestos pipe, known as Transite. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 2:39 pm by Bexis
Last week we put up a post commenting on something that we thought was wrong with New Jersey law. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 10:51 am by Schachtman
  According to Castleman, when Schepers planned to return to South Africa, he found himself bullied by Vandiver Brown, a lawyer for Johns Manville Corporation, over turning in a report of his American research and observations to the South African government. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 8:03 am by Schachtman
One other chrysotile supplier had settled, and the third, Johns-Manville was in bankruptcy. [read post]
3 Mar 2012, 5:36 pm by Schachtman
Johns Manville Corp., slip op. at 3, Phila. [read post]
20 May 2019, 9:18 am by Schachtman
Thus a federal trial court in Kentucky, applying Indiana law, granted summary judgment to a respirator manufacturer, on the basis of the sophisticated intermediary defense, in a post-OSHA asbestos lung cancer case.[11] Similarly, a Virginia state trial court, notwithstanding the application of Virginia law in the Willis and Oman federal cases upheld the sophisticated intermediary defense as a complete legal defense for asbestos sales after 1970.[12] The decisions in these asbestos cases with only… [read post]
31 Jan 2012, 5:36 am by Schachtman
More Asbestos History The role of the United States government in the asbestos mess is relatively unexplored historical territory. [read post]
17 Nov 2023, 1:21 pm by Asbestos Legal Center
Refractory/Boiler Contractor 30% Boiler contractor – primarily CA – 25 other states Johns Manville Everything 5% World’s Biggest Asbestos Company Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Refractories-Kaiser Shipyard Ships 25% 1000 Qualifying Ships not on Site Lists Keene Asbestos Cement 0.8% File in Military, Shipyard, Power Plant, Industrial etc.. [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 5:32 am
Predictive coding (also called “technology assisted review” (“TAR”)) involves the use of computerized artificial intelligence to extrapolate from attorney coding of small (and repeated) sample document sets ultimately to govern huge document productions. [read post]
6 Jun 2020, 12:43 pm by Jon L. Gelman
Johns-Manville Products Corp., the Court rejected the “state of the art” defense and allowed for strict liability to be imposed against the defendant manufacturers “for failure to warn of dangers which were undiscoverable at the time” they manufactured their products. 90 N.J. 191, 205 (1982). [read post]