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IN RE ASBESTOS CASES

Nos. 85-1912, 85-1913.

847 F.2d 523 (1988)

In re ASBESTOS CASES. (Two Cases) Hoo Kin CHANG and Ethel F.O. Chang, Plaintiffs/Appellees, v. JOHNS-MANVILLE SALES CORPORATION, formerly known as Johns-Manville Products Corp., et al., Defendants, and Raymark Industries, Inc., Successor to Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., Defendant/Appellant. Charles CHUN, Raymond Judd and Carinthia Judd, Moses Ho and Fanny Ho, Richard Lau and Janet C. Lau, Plaintiffs/Appellees, v. JOHNS-MANVILLE SALES CORPORATION, formerly known as Johns-Manville Products Corp., et al., Defendants, and Raymark Industries, Inc., Successor to Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., Defendant/Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided May 23, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Howarth, Los Angeles, Cal., Paula Devens, Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant/appellant.

L. Richard DeRobertis, Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiffs/appellees.

Before CANBY and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges, and TAKASUGI, District Judge.

CANBY, Circuit Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff-appellees Hoo Kin Chang and Charles Chun worked for more than thirty years at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard before retiring in 1976. In 1980, they brought these negligence and products liability actions against defendant-appellants Raymark, Owens-Illinois, Eagle-Picher, and other manufacturers for asbestos-related injuries. The cases were the subject of global settlement negotiations along with 139 other cases...

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