On September 29, 2006 a Motion,Ex Parte was filed involving a dispute between Rodamer, James, Rodamer, Nancy, and All Asbestos Defendants, Allis-Chalmers Corporation Product Liability Trust, Armstrong International, Inc., Asbestos Corporation, Ltd., A.W. Chesterton Company, Buffalo Pumps, Inc., Cleaver Brooks, Cleaver-Brooks, Inc., Crane Co., Crane Co. Individually And As Sii To Chapman Valve, Crown, Cork & Seal, Individually And As, Csr, Ltd., Aka Colonial Sugar Refinery, Does 1-300, Inclusive, Domco Products Texas, L.P, Douglass Insulation Company, Inc., Durabla Manufacturing Company, Elliott Company,, Fairbanks Morse Pump, Fairbanks Morse Pump Corp., Familian Corporation, Familian Corporation Dba Familian Pipe &, Foster Wheeler Llc, Foster Wheeler, Llc, Gardner Denver, Inc., Garlock Sealing Technologies, Llc, Garlock Sealing Technologies, Llc Individually And, General Electric Company, Goulds Pumps, Inc., Grinnell Corporation, Henry Vogt Machine Co., Hill Brothers Chemical Company, Imo Industries Inc.,, Imo Industries, Inc., Ingersoll-Rand Company, International Paper Company, Itt Corporation,, Itt Industries, Individually And As Sii To, J.T. Thorpe & Son, Inc., Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc., Kentile Floors, Inc., Leslie Controls, Inc., Lydall, Inc., Lydall, Inc.,, Metex Mfg. Corporation, Owens-Illinois, Inc., Parker Hannifin Corp., Individually And As Sii To, Parker Hannifin Corporation, Plant Insulation Company, Quintec Industries, Inc., Ray L. Hellwig Plumbing, R. F. Macdonald, R.F. Macdonald Co., Soco West, Inc., Sterling Fluid Systems, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Thomas Dee Engineering Company, Thomas Dee Engineering Company, Inc., Union Carbide Corporation, Uniroyal, Inc., Warren Pumps, Llc, Westburne Supply Inc., Yarway Corporation, for ASBESTOS in the District Court of San Francisco County.
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Selman Breitman Lup ATTORNEYS AT LAW 130789.1 45-1.23184 MARK A. LOVE (SBN 162028) JANICE W. MAN (SBN 209956) ELECTRONICALLY SELMAN BREITMAN LLP FILED 33 New Montgomery, Sixth Floor Superior Court of California, San Francisco, CA 94105 County of San Francisco Telephone: (415) 979-0400 MAY 16 2007 Facsimile: (415} 979-2099 mlove@selmanbreitman.com jman@selmanbreitman.com GORDON PARK-LI, Clerk BY: LUCIA RAMOS Deputy Clerk Attorneys for Defendant RAY L. HELLWIG PLUMBING SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO - UNLIMITED JURISDICTION JAMES RODAMER and NANCY RODAMER,| CASENO. 456569 Plaintiffs, RAY L. HELLWIG PLUMBING'S MOTION IN LIMINE FOR AN OFFER v. OF PROOF A.W. CHESTERTON COMPANY, et ai., Date Defendants. Time Dept. Judge Trial Date : April 30, 2007 Complaint Filed : September 29, 2006 Defendant RAY L. HELLWIG PLUMBING (“HELLWIG”) hereby moves the Court to issue an order in this action requiring the plaintiffs to make an offer of proof, prior to the beginning of trial and before the selection of a jury, regarding identification witnesses and evidence connecting plaintiff James Rodamer’s alleged exposure to asbestos was a result of the work activitics of HELLWIG, INTRODUCTION In this case, plaintiffs allege that plaintiff James Rodamer suffered from injurics suffered as a result of exposure to ashestos or asbestos-conlainin g products installed or disturbed by HELLWIG. On the basis of evidence presented to HELLWIG during RAY I.. RELL WIG PLUMBING'S MOTION IN LIMINE FOR AN OFFER OF PROOTSelman Breitman Lip ATTORNEYS AT LAW 28 su7¥9.1 45423186 discovery, HELLWIG contends that plaintiffs cannot present sufficient evidence of liability on part of HELLWIG to survive a motion for nonsuit. CONCLUSION For each of the foregoing reasons, HELLWIG respectfully requests the Court to require plaintiffs to make a preliminary showing that (1) plaintiff James Rodamer was exposed to asbestos for which HELL WIG is responsible and (2) that such exposure, if any, was in excess of the EPA's "threshold limit value" or any other applicable standard and that such exposure was a substantial factor in causing plaintiff James Rodamer's illness. DATED; May dt, 2007 SELMAN BRE&I JAXJZE W. MAN Attomeys for Defendant RAY L. HELLWIG PLUMBING RAY I, HELLWIG PLUMBING'S MOTION TN LIMINE FOR AN OFFER OF PROOF