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TALLMAN v. W.R. GRACE & CO.-CONN.

No. 95-1273.

558 N.W.2d 208 (1997)

Gloria A. TALLMAN, Executor of the Estate of Robert W. Tallman, Deceased, Appellant, v. W.R. GRACE & CO.—CONN., Appellee, and Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Owens-Illinois, Inc., and ACandS, Inc., Defendants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 22, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Galligan, Timm W. Reid, and Richard H. Doyle of Michael J. Galligan Law Firm, P.C., Des Moines, and Phillip C. Vonderhaar of Hedberg, Ward, Owens & Vonderhaar, Des Moines, for appellant.

Michael D. Huppert of Patterson, Lorentzen, Duffield, Timmons, Irish, Becker & Ordway, L.L.P., Des Moines, for appellee.

John D. Ackerman of Heidman, Redmond, Fredregill, Patterson, Schatz & Plaza, L.L.P., Sioux City, for Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation. Virginia M. Giokaris of Polsinelli, White, Vardeman & Shalton, P.C., Kansas City, Missouri, and G. Mark Rice of Adams & Howe, P.C., Des Moines, for Owens-Illinois, Inc. and ACandS, Inc.

Considered by LARSON, P.J., and CARTER, LAVORATO, SNELL, and TERNUS, JJ.

LARSON, Justice.

This is another asbestos injury case between a construction worker and the manufacturers of asbestos building products. Among other defenses, the manufacturers raised the fifteen-year bar of Iowa Code section 614.1(11) (1993), which is applicable to injuries arising from improvements to real estate. The district court granted summary judgment to one of the defendants, W.R. Grace & Co., because, when the worker was exposed to its asbestos product...

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