21 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · November 22, 1999 · in the opinion
Miller v. Foster Wheeler Co. (1999)
… PPG Industries, Inc.; Panoceanic S.S. Corp.; Pittsburgh Corning Corporation; Philbrico Company; States Marine Lines; U.S. Gypsum Company; Union Carbide Corp., Respondents. Nos. 43286-9-I, 43287-7-I. November 22, 1999. Publication Ordered January…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · May 9, 1991
Wehmeier v. Unr Industries, Inc. (1991)
…causation. Causation; Product Identification; Expert Testimony; Fear of Cancer and Medical Monitoring; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: Unarco (Union Asbestos & Rubber Company) Bloomington plant; UNARCO plant, Bloomington, Bloomington UNARCO employee (pipe department) UNARCO plant, Bloomington Bloomington…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · May 9, 1991
Thacker v. Unr Industries, Inc. (1991)
The appellate court affirmed the jury verdict judgments for plaintiff Lois Thacker against the Manville Corporation Asbestos Disease Compensation Fund, rejecting its requests for judgment n.o.v. and a new trial. Evidence that asbestos dust…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · August 11, 1998
McClure v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
…evidence, proximate cause need only be shown by a preponderance. Causation; Expert Testimony; Fault, Apportionment and Settlement Credits; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: Unarco (Union Asbestos & Rubber Company) Bloomington plant; Unarco plant, Bloomington, Bloomington; Unarco plant…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 21, 1999
McClure v. Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1999)
…and convincing proof of the agreement element. The remaining contacts among the companies were as consistent with innocence as with guilt. Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: Unarco (Union Asbestos & Rubber Company) Bloomington plant; Unarco Bloomington plant…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · September 21, 1992
Thacker v. Unr Industries, Inc. (1992)
… Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: Unarco (Union Asbestos & Rubber Company) Bloomington plant; Union Asbestos and Rubber Company (UNARCO) Bloomington plant, Bloomington pipe-covering department worker Union Asbestos and Rubber Company (UNARCO) Bloomington plant Bloomington 1954-1962
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Re: "Changing attitudes and opinions regarding asbestos and cancer 1934-1965"
…not an original research study. Its author, the administrator of an insulators' union health program, was responding to Dr. Philip Enterline's 1991 review of how scientists' opinions on asbestos and cancer changed between 1934 and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Asbestos and cancer: an early warning to the British TUC
The author, a lawyer at the University of Birmingham, examined Trades Union Congress (TUC) archives held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. The archives related to the drafting of Britain's Asbestos Industry Regulations…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · July 16, 1991
Fibreboard Corp. v. Pool (1991)
…the limitations defense, or the fault percentages. It held that a union poster was wrongly admitted but harmless. It found the evidence insufficient for Pool's $100,000 future medical award, so he must remit it…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Asbestos and cancer: An overview of current trends in Europe
…between 0. 004 kg in northern Europe and 2.4 kg in the former Soviet Union. Population surveys from northern Europe indicate that 15 to 30% of the male (and a few percent of the female…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · January 29, 1998
Adams v. Owens-Illinois (1998)
…verdicts, jury instructions about Bethlehem Steel, Hopeman and Foster Wheeler, and evidence that unions knew of asbestos hazards. The Court of Special Appeals affirmed. It found no abuse of discretion or prejudice in jury selection, held…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · December 22, 1994 · in the opinion
Goss v. American Cyanamid Co. (1994)
…incorporated general sales area includes Middlesex, northern Monmouth\[,\] Union and Eastern Somerset counties.... [\248] The American Cyanamid plant in which Goss and Patullo worked was located in Eastern Somerset county. A reasonable inference to be drawn…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · March 2, 1994 · in the opinion
Atkinson v. Celotex Corp. (1994)
…Larry Gene Canada, for Combustion Engineering. Edwin A. Ellinghausen III, David L. Tolin, for Fibreboard Corporation. Louis G. Lemle for Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. James L. Pate, Ben Louis Mayeaux, for M.H. Detrick Co. [\386…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · June 2, 1993 · in the opinion
Jackson v. Anchor Packing Co. (1993)
… Alpine Elec. Co. v. Union Bank, 979 F.2d 133, 135 (8th Cir.1992). A. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. The plaintiffs' evidence establishes at least a probability that Owens-Corning's Kaylo pipe and block insulation…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · April 24, 1997 · in the opinion
Conway v. Raymark Indus. (In re Asbestos Litigation, 1997)
…Id.; King v. Hahn, 885 F.Supp. 95, 98 (S.D.N.Y. 1995); National Union Fire Insurance Co. v. Thomas, 713 F.Supp. 62, 65. In order to prevail, the moving party must carry a…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · April 27, 1995 · in the opinion
ACandS, Inc. v. Asner (1995)
…claimed for contribution against Owens-Illinois, Inc., GAF, Inc., Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, and Armstrong World Industries, Inc. At the close of appellees' case, and at the close of all the evidence, appellants' motions for judgment on…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · October 21, 1998 · in the opinion
Asbestos v. Bordelon, Inc. (1998)
…testified that Owens-Illinois, before it merged with Owens Corning Fiberglass Company, manufactured fiberglass pipe covering which was sold to the Asbestos Workers Union. This fiberglass pipe covering did not cause lung cancer, but the workers…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · August 3, 1998 · in the opinion
Scheiding v. General Motors Corp. (1998)
…for his asbestos injuries and for his wife's loss of consortium. Billy Umphriss was employed as an engine supplyman and fireman for the Union Pacific Railroad from 1941 through 1942 and from 1950 through 1961…
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Court case · North Dakota Supreme Court · December 22, 1999 · in the opinion
Black v. Abex Corp. (1999)
…rule as persuasive. Continental Casualty Co. v. Kinsey, 513 N.W.2d 66, 69 (N.D.1994); Farmers Union Oil Co. v. Harp, 462 N.W.2d 152, 154 (N.D.1990). In Celotex Corp. v…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Beta-Carotene, vitamin A, and lung cancer chemoprevention: results of an intermediate endpoint study
…of 755 people in Texas with documented occupational asbestos exposure. They were former workers from a Tyler manufacturing plant and members of pipe fitters and insulation workers unions. The treated group (378 people) took 50 mg…