1,307 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 34 of 66
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana · May 27, 2014
Leonard v. Board OF Supervisors OF Louisiana State University and Agriculture and Mechanical College (2014)
The court granted Union Pacific Railroad Company's re-urged motion to dismiss, ruling that Union Pacific owed Royce Leonard no legal duty, so the Leonards' claims against it were dismissed. Under Louisiana law, a railroad…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · September 17, 2018 · in the opinion
Jack v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec, LLC (2018)
…studies linking secondary asbestos exposure with the onset of asbestos disease. (See Castleman Dep. at 19:19-21.) Additionally, Union Pacific urges the court to follow Hoyt v. Lockheed Shipbuilding Co., C12-1648TSZ, 2013 WL 3270371…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri · August 12, 2024
Guthe v. Johnson & Johnson (2024)
The court granted PTI Union's motion to dismiss the strict liability, negligence and willful-and-wanton counts against it without prejudice, and denied its request for a stay without prejudice; the plaintiffs lost on the…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · February 27, 1992
Betts v. Manville Personal Injury Trust (1992)
…Defenses; Fault, Apportionment and Settlement Credits; Fear of Cancer and Medical Monitoring; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: Unarco (Union Asbestos & Rubber Company) Bloomington plant; UNARCO plant, Bloomington, Bloomington worker at the UNARCO plant UNARCO plant, Bloomington…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · October 13, 2017
Gallen v. Aerco Intl., Inc. (2017)
The court granted settled party Clyde Union's motion, quashed defendant The Fairbanks Company's trial subpoena for a Clyde Union witness, and allowed Fairbanks to use Clyde Union's interrogatory answers and deposition at trial…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit · August 9, 1991
Carey Canada, Inc. v. Columbia Cas. Co. (1991)
…C. Circuit affirmed the district court's finding that the 1977 National Union policy exclusion was ambiguous and covered all asbestos claims, but vacated and remanded as to the Columbia Casualty and 1979 National Union policies…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · April 22, 1998
Rareshide v. Mobil Oil Corp. (1998)
The appeals court affirmed most of the workers' compensation judge's ruling for refinery worker Carl Rareshide against Mobil Oil and its insurer National Union. It cut his temporary total disability benefits to six months, awarded…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · July 30, 1999
Blanding v. Director, Owcp (1999)
…Board and reinstated the ALJ's award of death benefits to Frouwke Blanding, holding her claim timely against Oldam Shipping and Commercial Union. An employer or carrier that fails to rebut the 33 U.S.C. …
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · March 18, 2009
Hymel v. Eagle, Inc. (2009)
…Appeal affirmed the trial court's judgment sustaining the exception of res judicata for J.D. Roberts and Commercial Union Insurance Company, dismissing Ralph Hymel's mesothelioma claims with prejudice based on his 1998 release. A…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit · July 17, 2003
Bath Iron Works Corp. v. US Dept. of Labor (2003)
Gertrude Knight's husband William worked at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine, from 1941 to 1986. For much of that time he cut, handled and installed asbestos insulation. He stopped working with asbestos in 1979 and retired in 1986. In…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · December 13, 1995
Stonewall Ins. Co. v. Asbestos Claims Management (1995)
…mesothelioma and asbestosis) and thousands of building-owner property claims. NGC, now Asbestos Claims Management Corporation, and its liability insurers sued each other over coverage. The Second Circuit reviewed district court judgments after a jury trial…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · November 13, 2003
Matter of Conway v. Cbi Services, Inc. (2003)
The Appellate Division affirmed the Workers' Compensation Board's decision holding CBI Services and its carrier National Union liable on the widow's death benefits claim, rejecting their due process, evidence and settlement-consent arguments. Where…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri · February 14, 2019
Douglas v. Imerys Talc America, Inc. (2019)
…complete diversity existed, and granted PTI Union's motion to dismiss the claims against it with prejudice, so PTI Union won and Douglas lost on both motions. Complete diversity existed regardless of fraudulent joinder, so remand…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Florida · November 15, 1994
Matter of Celotex Corp. (1994)
Celotex Corporation and its subsidiary Carey Canada, Inc., which had been a miner of raw chrysotile asbestos fibers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 1990, with over 140,000 asbestos bodily injury lawsuits pending. They…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · February 19, 2003
Ewing v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (2003)
Murphy Ewing worked for Brown & Root from about 1964 to 1974 and for Avondale from about 1971 to 1972, and was exposed to asbestos. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in July 1996 and died in April 1997. He and his wife sued in 1996. After his…
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Court case · Delaware Court of Chancery · October 14, 2009
Viking Pump, Inc. v. Century Indemnity Company (2009)
Viking Pump and Warren Pumps bought pump businesses from Houdaille Industries and now face asbestos injury claims from the years Houdaille owned those businesses. They sued twenty excess insurers, who had sold Houdaille forty-five policies, to use…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · May 27, 1986
Zurich Ins. Co. v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1986)
…1960s. Its insurers (Zurich, Federal, Commercial Union, Globe and excess insurer Northbrook) disputed in a declaratory judgment action when their policies had to respond and who had to pay defense costs. After hearing nine medical experts…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · July 5, 2017
Konstantin v. Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co. (2017)
Ruby Konstantin, executor for her late husband David Konstantin, sued the insurers of Tishman Liquidating Corporation. David Konstantin, a carpenter from 1974 to 1977, was allegedly exposed to asbestos on buildings and died in 2012 of…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri · March 15, 2019
Douglas v. Imerys Talc America, Inc. (2019)
Shawnee Douglas sued Johnson & Johnson Consumer, Imerys Talc America, MetLife and PTI Union in St. Louis city court in Missouri. She alleged she has malignant peritoneal mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos in talc-based products. Johnson…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · August 10, 2018
Jack v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec LLC (2018)
Patrick Jack developed pleural mesothelioma and died. His family sued several companies, including Ford, Borg-Warner, Honeywell, Ingersoll Rand and Dana's successor DCo. They alleged he was exposed to asbestos in the Navy, at the Puget Sound Naval…