295 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 8 of 15
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 24, 1991
R. C. Gombar and A. G. Sapper (Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue), 'What If A Disaster Should Happen? Legal Issues,' Contractor Safety Symposium Paper on OSHA Inspections (1991)
Outline of a law-firm presentation for the IRC, ORC, JDR&P symposium on contractor safety, session of October 24, 1991. It advises employers on handling an OSHA inspection after a catastrophe: whether to demand a warrant, preparing and training a…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · March 14, 1994
MVA, Inc. Report of Results MVA0831: Examination of a Carborundum Grinding Wheel, Prepared for Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole (1994)
MVA, Inc. report to a law firm on its March 3, 1994 examination of two grinding wheels in Buffalo, New York, one labeled "CARBORUNDUM BLACK MAGIC DIAMOND WHEEL". It describes sampling and polarized light and SEM/x-ray analysis, and reports…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 20, 1990
EPA Final Rule Revising the Asbestos NESHAP, 40 CFR Part 61, Federal Register (1990)
Cover page and first page of the Federal Register notice (Vol. 55, No. 224, Part III) in which EPA promulgated its final revisions to the asbestos National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants. The summary and standards sections describe…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · May 9, 1990
Handwritten Notes on State Laws, Friable Material Cleanup and Removal from Service (1990)
Two pages of unsigned handwritten notes. The first is headed with the name "Jack Sarnit" and a date and is titled "State laws". It lists points about friable material being reportable, removing friable material before releasing an area, and…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 1990
EPA, National Emission Standards for Asbestos: Background Information for Promulgated Asbestos NESHAP Revisions (EPA-450/3-90-017) (1990)
EPA background information document for the 1990 promulgated revisions to the asbestos NESHAP (EPA-450/3-90-017). It summarizes changes since the January 1989 proposal and the impacts of the final rule. It lists the 100 commenters (including…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · 1997
Excerpts from Dominick V. Rosato, Designing with Reinforced Composites: Technology, Performance, Economics, Including Section 2.12 on Asbestos Fibers (1997)
Excerpt from a 1997 Hanser textbook on reinforced plastic composites: title page, copyright page, SPE foreword, and pages 76-78 of the Materials of Construction chapter. Section 2.12 describes asbestos fibers and states that asbestos use was reduced…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Compensation of Occupational Diseases, Particularly Asbestos-Related Diseases, Among European Union (EU) Countries
This paper examined occupational disease compensation in European Union countries, focusing on asbestos-related diseases. The authors surveyed compensation institutes by questionnaire and compared mesothelioma compensations with World Health Organization pleural tumor death data, which excluded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Mineral phases and some reexamined characteristics of the International Union Against Cancer standard asbestos samples
Standard asbestos samples to be used for biomedical research were first prepared by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) in 1966 in the United Kingdom and South Africa. Using modern techniques, X-ray diffractometry, analytical transmission…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Extended mortality follow-up among men and women in a U.S. furniture workers union
…and 1962 in union-organized U.S. shops and were found through United Furniture Workers of America insurance records. Most worked in furniture and related plants, but about 1% held nonmanufacturing jobs such as union staff…
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · November 25, 1997
Gauthe v. Asbestos Corp. Ltd. (1997)
Earlven Gauthe worked at Avondale Shipyards from 1942 to 1977. In 1995 he was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma from asbestos exposure, and he died in 1996. His wife and children sued for wrongful death. The defendants included Avondale's…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 30, 1996
Armstrong World Industries v. Aetna Cas. & Sur. (1996)
Three asbestos manufacturers, Armstrong World Industries, Fibreboard and GAF, sued their liability insurers in coordinated declaratory relief actions over who must cover tens of thousands of asbestos injury suits and property damage suits over…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Florida · June 7, 1996 · in the opinion
Matter of Celotex Corp. (1996)
…Granite State Insurance Company 15) Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company 16) Highlands Insurance Company 17) Insurance Company of North America 18) Lexington Insurance Company 19) National Surety Corporation 20) National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · June 14, 1990
Owens Corning Fiberglas v. Ind. Comm'n (1990)
… Wrongful Death and Survival; Loss of Consortium Worksites: Union Asbestos and Rubber Company (UNARCO) plant, later Owens Corning Fiberglas plant foreman in a factory Union Asbestos and Rubber Company (UNARCO) plant, later Owens Corning Fiberglas plant…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · May 19, 1994
Hartman v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (1994)
… Fault, Apportionment and Settlement Credits; Loss of Consortium; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: Union Electric — Labadie plant; Union Electric — Meramec plant; Washington University Research Center; Labadie Power House; Meramec Power House electrician Labadie Power House 1969…