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Asbestos Content in Temple-Inland Fiberboard or Other Products?

Some Temple Inland board products contained asbestos, as we discovered in researching patents and litigation records - cited below.

Question: should we worry about asbestos in Temple Insulating Sheathing?

Paul Osborne said

We have Temple insulation sheathing under our floor boards. In the upstairs. This was disturbed by the electrician and cut with a saw. The house was built in 1968. The company is now called Temple-inland. Should we be concerned about asbestos

2019/11/24 Paul Osborne said:

We have Temple insulation sheathing under our floor boards. In the upstairs. This was disturbed by the electrician and cut with a saw. The house was built in 1968. The company is now called Temple-inland. Should we be concerned about asbestos

Reply: probably not

We do not have any examples of and would welcome contributions to a list of any Temple-Inland products used or contained asbestos but to date (November 2019) that has not been found.

That some Temple-Inland products contained abestos might be inferred, improperly, in citations by some asbestosis litigation websites, and in case law in the United States.

Watch out: the statements below, made by the company indicate that the company "does not" produce asbestos-containing products.

[Unfortunately the sentence does not include clarification about whether or not the company ever produced asbestos-containing products.]

Asbestos

We are a defendant in various lawsuits involving alleged workplace exposure to asbestos. These cases involve exposure to asbestos in premises owned or operated by us.

We do not manufacture any products that contain asbestos, and all our cases in this area are limited to workplace exposure claims.

Historically, our aggregate annual settlements related to asbestos claims have been approximately $1 million. The number of claims has remained relatively constant in the past few years.

and

Asset Retirement and Environmental Obligations

Many of our manufacturing facilities contain asbestos and lead paint. We are currently not required to remove any of these materials, but we could be required to do so in the future if we were to demolish or undertake major renovations of these facilities. ...

- Source: SEC filing: UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-K Commission File Number 001-08634 Temple-Inland Inc. 1300 MoPac Expressway South, 3rd Floor Austin, Texas 78746 Tel: (512) 434-5800 [PDF] retrieved 2019/11/25 original source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/731939/000095012310015600/d70988e10vk.htm

Asbestos litigation research articles that cite Temple Inland

• Behrens, Mark A., and Monica G. Parham. "Stewardship for the Sick: Preserving Assets for Asbestos Victims Through Inactive Docket Programs." Tex. Tech L. Rev. 33 (2001):
• Greene, Charles T. "Determining Liability in Asbestos Cases: The Battle to Assign Liability Decades After Exposure." Am. J. Trial Advoc. 31 (2007): 571.
  Excerpt:
  ... Temple-Inland Forest Prods. Corp. v. Carter, 993 SW2d 88, 95 (Tex. 1999)). Page 8. 578 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRIAL ADVOCACY [Vol …
  that [the plaintiff] contracted asbestosis from inhaling asbestos dust and that he was …
• Henderson Jr, James A., and Aaron D. Twerski. "Asbestos Litigation Gone Mad: Exposure-Based Recovery for Increased Risk, Mental Distress, and Medical Monitoring." SCL Rev. 53 (2001): 815.
• Levine, Rebecca Leah. "Clearing the Air: Ordinary Negligence in Take-Home Asbestos Exposure Litigation." Wash. L. Rev. 86 (2011): 359.
• Lloyd, James S. "Administering A Cure-All or Selling Snake Oil: Implementing an Inactive Docket for Asbestos Litigation in Texas." Houston Law Review 43, no. 1 (2005): 4464.
• Moslemi, A. A. "Emerging technologies in mineral-bonded wood and fiber composites." Advanced Performance Materials 6, no. 2 (1999): 161-179.
• Rothstein, Paul F. "What Courts Can Do in the Face of the Never-Ending Asbestos Crisis." Miss. LJ 71 (2001): 1.
• Sanders, Joseph. "Medical Criteria Acts: State Statutory Attempts to Control the Asbestos Litigation." Sw. UL Rev. 37 (2008): 671.
• Temple-Inland Forest Products Corp. v. Carter, 993 S.W.2d 88 (Tex. 1999) [PDF] Texas Supreme Court Filed: April 29th, 1999 Precedential Status: Precedential Citations: 993 S.W.2d 88 Docket Number: 97-0592 Retrieved 2019/11/25 original source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1763560/temple-inland-forest-products-corp-v-carter/
  
  

  In Temple-Inland Forest Products Corp. v. Carter, 993 S.W.2d 88 (Tex. 1999) [PDF] actual case file; excerpting from a Case Summary retrieved 2019/11/25 original source: https://www.lawpipe.com/Texas/Temple-Inland_Products_Corp_v_Carter.html

  In Temple-Inland Products Corp. v. Carter, 993 S.W.2d 88 (Tex. 1999), the plaintiffs, Carter and Wilson, were employees of an independent contractor hired by Temple-Inland to drill holes in laboratory countertops to install electrical outlets. Carter, 993 S.W.2d at 89.

  The plaintiffs did not know, and were not initially told by Temple-Inland, that the countertops and the dust produced by the drilling contained asbestos fibers.

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