IN RE GENERAL DYNAMICS ASBESTOS CASES

No. CML No. 1.

539 F.Supp. 1106 (1982)

In re GENERAL DYNAMICS ASBESTOS CASES.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

May 21, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Embry, Matthew Shafner, O'Brien, Shafner, Garvey, Bartinik & Stuart, Groton, Conn., Stanley J. Levy, Kreindler & Kreindler, New York City, N. Y., for plaintiffs.

Peter C. Schwartz, Gordon, Muir & Foley, Hartford, Conn., for defendants.

James Ackerman, Ernest Mattei, Day, Berry & Howard, Bourke G. Spellacy, Thomas J. Shortell, Charles F. Corcoran, III, Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, Hartford, Conn., for American Asbestos Textile Corp. a/k/a Amatex.

Everett Fink, Hartford, Conn., for Asbestos Corp. of America.

Joseph Adinolfi, Jr., James M. Tanski, Donald W. O'Brien, Hartford, Conn., for Celotex Corp.

Joseph F. Skelley, Jr., Hartford, Conn., for Cummings Insulation.

Edmund T. Curran, Hartford, Conn., for Defense Apparel, Inc.

Howard B. Field, III, East Hartford, Conn., S. Robert Jelley, Patrick M. Noonan, William J. Doyle, William H. Prout, Jr., Wiggin & Dana, New Haven, Conn., for Eagle Picher.

Robert G. Montstream, Glastonbury, Conn., for Eastern Refractories Co., Inc.

Hadleigh H. Howd, Hartford, Conn., Peter Ellis, Boston, Mass., for General Dynamics Corp.

John FitzGerald, James M. Moher, Richard S. Bartlett, Howard, Kohn, Sprague & FitzGerald, Hartford, Conn., for H. K. Porter Co., Inc.

Peter C. Schwartz, Philip J. O'Connor, Gordon, Muir, & Foley, Hartford, Conn., for Johns-Manville Corp., Johns-Manville Products, Inc., Johns-Manville Sales Corp.

Vincent J. Dowling, Patrick J. Flaherty, Cooney, Scully & Dowling, Hartford, Conn., for Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. a/k/a Corning Glass Works Corp.

Maurice T. FitzMaurice, Robert J. Hebron, Lawrence H. Lissitzyn, David E. Rosengren, Reid & Riege, P. C., Hartford, Conn., for Owens-Illinois Corp. and Owens-Illinois Glass Corp.

R. Cornelius Danaher, Jr., Robert C. Danaher, Frederick B. Tedford, Joyce A. Lagnese, Danaher, Lewis & Tamoney, Hartford, Conn., for Pittsburgh-Corning Corp.

Arnold J. Bai, James E. Coyne, Dennis M. Laccavole, Bai, Pollock & Dunnigan, Bridgeport, Conn., for Raybestos Manhattan, Inc.

Thomas J. Hagarty, Halloran, Sage, Phelon & Hagarty, Hartford, Conn., for Sepco Corp.

Henry C. Ide, Barbara A. Rezner, Bailey & Wechsler, Hartford, Conn., for Shook & Fletcher Insulation Co.

John R. FitzGerald, James M. Moher, James T. Haviland, II, Howard, Kohn, Sprague & FitzGerald, Hartford, Conn., for Southern Textile Corp. f/k/a Southern Asbestos Corp.

Scott L. Gorland, Civil Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Alan H. Nevas, U. S. Atty., John B. Hughes, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Haven, Conn., for United States of America.

Gregory C. Willis, Willis & Holahan, Bridgeport, Conn., for Westinghouse Elec. Corp.


RULING ON THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANT GENERAL DYNAMIC'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

BLUMENFELD, Senior District Judge.

A number of individual suits have been filed in this court by plaintiffs who allege that they or the individuals whom they represent have suffered injuries as a result of exposure to asbestos products during the course of their employment at the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporation (Electric Boat). Many of these individual...

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