10 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · June 25, 1982
Froud v. Celotex Corporation (1982)
Three asbestos workers, James Froud, John Friday and Wyatt Williamson, died after allegedly developing disease from prolonged exposure to asbestos products made and sold by the defendants. Froud and Friday had peritoneal mesothelioma; Williamson had…
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Court case · West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals · December 19, 1980 · in the opinion
Powell v. State Workmen's Compensation Com'r (1980)
…183, 67 S.E.2d 34 (1951). There the claimant, a welder at Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, filed a claim for compensation contending that his physical condition, diagnosed by a physician as acute bronchitis, was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Pulmonary fibrosis in asbestos insulation workers with lung cancer: a radiological and histopathological evaluation
This study examined members of an insulation workers' union who died of lung cancer between January 1967 and September 1983. It was part of a continuing cohort mortality study of 17,800 union members. Of 450…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Histologic type of lung cancer and asbestos exposure
…asbestos exposure. The authors reviewed 855 lung cancer cases in total (747 men and 108 women), from three New Jersey hospitals and from a study of insulation workers union members, which supplied 67 cases. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestos disease in sheet metal workers: proportional mortality update
…workers. They examined death certificates for 331 white male members of Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association whose deaths were reported to the union benefit fund between January 1983 and October 1986. Deaths…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Asbestos: historical perspective
…study by Irving Selikoff, E. Cuyler Hammond and Jacob Churg of 632 men from two asbestos insulator union locals. Hammond suggested confining analysis to men with at least 20 years' work experience. That study recorded 255…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
The role of intervention studies in ascertaining the contribution of dietary factors in lung cancer. The Seattle chemoprevention trial of retinoids in asbestos-exposed workers
…at Bremerton, medical specialists, lawyers and union screening programs. The planned double-blind randomized trial required about 2500 subjects (1250 per arm) receiving 25,000 units of retinol plus 15 mg of beta-carotene daily, or…
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Court case · California Supreme Court · July 3, 1980 · in the opinion
Johns-Manville Products Corp. v. Superior Court (1980)
…v. Superior Court (1975) 47 Cal. App.3d 760, 779 \[121 Cal. Rptr. 621\]; see Meyer v. Graphic Arts International Union (1978) 88 Cal. App.3d 176, 178 \[151 Cal. Rptr. 597\]; contra, Azevedo v. Abel…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 25, 1983 · in the opinion
Froud v. Celotex Corp. (1983)
…11.) A "change in that construction by this court would amount to amending the statute," and this court has acknowledged that "\[t\]he power to accomplish this does not lie in the courts." Union Electric Co…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestos and lung cancer: the clinicians' questions
…Doctors are increasingly asked to interpret scientific evidence for patients, families, co-workers, unions, employers, the public and courts of law, sometimes facing legal questions such as in which year it was known that asbestos causes…