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OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORP. v. GARRETT

No. 117, Sept. Term, 1995.

682 A.2d 1143 (1996)

343 Md. 500

OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORPORATION, et al. v. Ralph GARRETT, et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Reconsideration Denied October 4, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory L. Lockwood (John P. Sweeney, Douglas B. Pfeiffer, Miles & Stockbridge, on brief); Lawrence L. Hooper (Scott Patrick Burns Tyding & Rosenberg L.L.P., on brief); and Warren N. Weaver (Louis G. Close, Jr., Padraic McSherry Morton, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, L.L.P., on brief), Baltimore, for appellants.

Peter T. Nocholl, Baltimore (Ann Ritter, Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Charleston, SC; Patrick S. Guilfoyle, Washington, DC, on brief); and Shepard A. Hoffman (Brian C. Parker, Kenneth R. Rhoad, Gebhardt & Smith, on brief) Baltimore, for appellees.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.

KARWACKI, Judge.

The plaintiffs/appellees brought suit in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against numerous manufacturers and distributors of asbestos products, alleging negligence and strict liability for failure to warn of the dangers of the asbestos products. Two of the plaintiffs were men suffering from asbestos-related mesothelioma, and another was the surviving wife of a man who had died of mesothelioma. Their...

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