Honeywell International Inc.’s long-term asbestos-related liabilities were US$1.550 billion as of March 31, 2009, compared with US$1.538 billion as of Dec. 31, 2008, according to a Company report, on Form 8-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April…
Lockheed Martin Corporation is still a defendant in lawsuits alleging personal injury as a result of exposure to asbestos integrated into its premises and certain historical products, according to the Company’s quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission…
Honeywell International Inc.’s asbestos-related litigation charges, net of insurance, amounted to US$36 million during the three months ended March 31, 2009, compared with US$28 million during the three months ended March 31, 2008.
The Company is a defendant in personal injury…
Honeywell International Inc.’s Bendix friction materials business faced 51,791 unresolved asbestos claims during the three months ended March 31, 2009, compared with 51,951 claims during the year ended Dec. 31, 2008.
Bendix manufactured automotive brake parts that contained chrysotile asbestos in…
Park-Ohio Holdings Corp., at Dec. 31, 2008, was a co-defendant in 315 cases asserting claims on behalf of about 4,500 plaintiffs alleging personal injury as a result of exposure to asbestos.
These asbestos cases generally relate to production and sale of…
GenCorp Inc. faced 138 asbestos-related cases pending as of Feb. 28, 2009, compared with 157 cases as of Nov. 30, 2008, according to the Company’s quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 27, 2009.
The Company has…
Alfredene Surgers, on behalf of her late husband Joseph Wayne Surgers, on March 23, 2009, filed an asbestos-related lawsuit in Jefferson County District Court, Tex., The Southeast Texas Record reports.
Some of the 82 defendants in the suit are A.W. Chesterton…
Curtiss-Wright Corporation continues to be a defendant in pending asbestos-related lawsuits.
The Company has been named in 148 pending lawsuits that allege injury from exposure to asbestos, according to the Company’s 2008 annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In…
An appeals court panel, on March 4, 2009, affirmed Superior Court Judge Philip Paley’s ruling, which denied Honeywell International Inc. and Chrysler Motor Corp. the right to have an autopsy performed on Harold St. John, who died of asbestos- related…