ABBOTT v. JOHN E. GREEN CO.

Docket Nos. 204222, 204223, 208287 and 209156.

592 N.W.2d 96 (1998)

233 Mich. App. 194

Thomas ABBOTT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JOHN E. GREEN COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant, and Beazer East, Inc., Defendant-Appellee. Thomas Abbott, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Schad Boiler Setting Company, Defendant-Appellant. William G. Adams, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ajax Magnethermic Corporation, Defendant-Appellant, and Allied Glove Corporation, American Optical Corporation, Townsend & Bottum, Inc., F.B. Wright Company, John E. Green Company, Schad Boiler Setting Company, Schad Refractory Construction Company, Record Industrial Company, Rapid-American Corporation, Combustion Engineering, Inc., Durametallic Corporation, Greene, Tweed & Company, Robertson-Ceco Corporation, Foseco Inc., Standard Fuel Engineering Company, A-Best Products Company, Mechanical Insulation Services, Inc., Rutland Fire Clay Company, Whiting Corporation, Duro Supply, Bond Supply Company, Dresser Industries, Inc., Owen-Illinois, Inc., Acands, Inc. Lake Asbestos of Quebeck, Ltd., Grant Wilson, Incorporated, PPG Industries, Inc., Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Atlas Turner, Inc., Hercules Chemical Corporation, Sager Corporation, Hedman Miner, Ltd., Adience, Inc., Mobile Oil Corporation, Harrison Piping Supply Company, NL Industries, Inc., Owens Illinois, Inc., Cooper Industries, Inc., Foster Wheeler Corporation, Hollinger & Co, Michigan Glove & Safety Supply Company, Inc., Brown Boveri Corporation, Chicago Firebrick Co., Midland Ross Corporation, Anchor Packing Company, Garlock, Inc., Sealite, Inc., Hi-Temp Products, Inc., Beazer East, Inc., Thiem Corporation, Bay City Hardware Company, M.H. Detrick Company, Oglebay Norton Company, General Electric Company, North Am Refractories Company, Acme Insulation, Inc., Uniroyal, Inc., Plibrico Company, Safety First Industries, Inc., Crown Cork & Seal Company, Jennison Hardward Company, J.H. France Refractories Company, U.S. Mineral Products Co., Durable Manufacturing Co., General Refractories Company, Twentieth Century Glove, Wheeler Protective Apparels Inc., Bigelow-Liptak Corporation, Coon Devisser Company, Treesdale, Inc., Modern Equipment Company, Inc., Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation, International Minerals & Chemical Argo Packing Company, Carborundum Company, Inc., CSR, Ltd., W.R. Grace Co., Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation, Acme Block & Supply Co., Alexander Stafford Corporation, Elof Hannson, Inc., and Martin Marietta Corporation, Defendants. Robert E. Herzberg, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ajax Magnethermic Corporation, Atlas Turner Inc., a/k/a Atlas Asbestos Company, Bond Supply Company, General Refractories Company, Hollinger & Company, United States Mineral Products Company, a/k/a United States Mineral Wool Company, a/k/a Columbia Acoustics and Fireproofing Company, and CCR, Defendants, and Brown Boveri Corporation, a/k/a ABB Industrial Systems, Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided December 18, 1998, at 9:00 a.m.

Released for Publication March 12, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Goldberg, Persky, Jennings & White, P.C. (by Joel Persky, Peter T. Paladino, Jr., Lane A. Clack, David B. Rodes, and Lee W. Davis), Saginaw, for Thomas Abbott, William G. Adams, and Robert E. Herzberg.

Secrest, Wardle, Lynch, Hampton, Truex, and Morley (by Janet Callahan Barnes and Roy E. Cole), Farmington Hills, for John E. Green Company and Schad Boiler Setting Company.

Kitch, Drutchas, Wagner & Kenney, P.C. (by Linda M. Garbarino and Daniel J. Niemann), Detroit, for Ajax Magnethermic Corporation.

Worsford, Macfarlane, McDonald, P.L.L.C. (by Evan L. Macfarlane and David M. Pierangeli), Grand Rapids, for Brown Boveri Corporation.

Before BANDSTRA, P.J., and GRIFFIN and YOUNG, JR., JJ.


BANDSTRA, P.J.

I. STATEMENT OF THE CASE

Defendants in these four consolidated cases1 appeal by leave granted from the circuit court's orders denying their identical motions for summary disposition. The appeals arose out of the same asbestos suit filed in 1994, when 1,375 employees and former employees of the General Motors Gray Iron Foundry in Saginaw sought to recover for personal injuries received as a result of exposure to...

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