40 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · September 6, 2006
Fernandez v. Union Carbide Corp. (2006)
The Third District Court of Appeal affirmed the final judgment entered on a jury verdict for Union Carbide Corporation, rejecting the plaintiff's challenges to the trial court's evidentiary rulings. A trial court acts within…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · April 18, 2006
Conwed Corp. v. Union Carbide Corp. (2006)
The Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's subrogation judgment for Conwed against Union Carbide in most respects, rejecting Union Carbide's collateral estoppel and damages challenges but correcting a double reduction and remanding to enter…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · August 25, 2005
Summers v. Certainteed Corp. (2005)
…Court was evenly divided, so the trial court's summary judgment for the asbestos defendants (CertainTeed and Union Carbide) against plaintiffs Summers and Nybeck was affirmed. Under the Giffear/Simmons line and Quate, asymptomatic asbestos-related…
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Court case · Tennessee Court of Appeals · March 13, 2008
Woody v. AW Chesterton Company (2008)
Wayne Woody, an insulator, and his wife Rebecca sued dozens of companies after he was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma in 2006; he died shortly after the suit was filed. In 1979 the Woodys had sued 25 companies over his asbestosis and settled in…
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Court case · Texas Supreme Court · June 8, 2007 · in the opinion
Borg-Warner Corporation v. Flores (2007)
…Eastman Chemical Company, Exxon Mobil Corporation, The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Owens Illinois, Inc., and Union Carbide Corporation submitted amicus briefs. \[11\] We note initially that Borg-Warner did not challenge, either before trial or…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Re: Controlled use of asbestos
…authors argued that controlled use was the latest in a series of corporate misrepresentations of asbestos risk. They examined Union Carbide Corporation's (UCC) claims that Calidria, a chrysotile mined from the Coalinga deposit in California…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · December 17, 2007 · in the opinion
Abrams v. Pneumo Abex Corp. (2007)
…Co., Georgia Pacific Corporation, Goulds Pumps, Inc., Greene Tweed & Co., Inc. Melrath Gaskets, Inc., Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Nosroc Corporation, Pars Manufacturing Co., Pecora Corporation, Rapid American Corporation, Riley Stoker Corporation, Union Carbide Corporation, Walter B…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · January 23, 2002
Hoerner v. Anco Insulations, Inc. (2002)
…Damages; Fault, Apportionment and Settlement Credits; Insurance Coverage; Fear of Cancer and Medical Monitoring; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: Union Carbide plant; Allied Chemical insulator Union Carbide plant 1965-1966; insulator Allied Chemical; insulator 1957-1982
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Court case · Ohio Court of Appeals · December 31, 2007 · in the opinion
Penn v. A-Best Prods. Co. (2007)
…Co., Industrial Holdings Corp; Union Carbide Corp., Amchem Products, Inc., CertainTeed Corp., Foseco, Inc., and Carborundum Co., Inc. Roetzel & Andress, Susan Squire Box, and Brad A. Rimmel, for appellee Mobil Corporation. Oldham & Dowling, Reginald S. Kramer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Asbestos panelists accuse government of misusing science
…world's fifth-largest exporter of chrysotile asbestos. A sidebar reported that, according to court transcripts, panel member David Bernstein had previously been retained by Union Carbide. The article presented no study data of its own.
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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 · Washington Supreme Court · August 9, 2007
Herring v. Texaco, Inc. (2007)
…bankruptcy to a claimant's union when the debtor had no knowledge of the particular claimant's claim. An unknown creditor is only entitled to publication notice, and notice to the union would not be actual…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Asbestos disease in Australia: looking forward and looking back
…and practice in Australia and introduced related pieces in the same journal issue. They described the trade union campaign to "Make James Hardie Pay", which ended when James Hardie shareholders approved a compensation fund in February…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Participatory mapping of occupational hazards and disease among asbestos-exposed workers from a foundry and insulation complex in Canada
…complex in Sarnia, Ontario. The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers and the Canadian Auto Workers union did it to support compensation claims. Former workers drew 'hazard maps' of their workplaces from memory. Foundry workers described…
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Court case · Tennessee Supreme Court · March 1, 2001
Mackie v. Young Sales Corp. (2001)
…the maximum weekly rate, against Young Sales Corporation. An employee's voluntary retirement does not preclude workers' compensation benefits for an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of employment, and benefits may be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Science is not sufficient: Irving J. Selikoff and the asbestos tragedy
…had not used, and on interviews with colleagues. They reported that Selikoff personally received no funds to direct a union-supported program, that he favored controlling asbestos hazards rather than campaigning for a ban, and that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
The prevalence of pleural plaques and/or pulmonary changes among construction workers in Okayama, Japan
…this as within the Japanese legal standard but far above a WHO standard. Second, specialists read chest x-rays of 2,951 male union construction workers in Okayama, Japan, and workers with findings had chest CT…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Asbestosis in the Republic of Croatia
…of asbestos. Croatia as a transitional country is subject to socioeconomic pressures. Future approaches to the asbestos issue will depend on revised regulations, which are expected to conform to recommendations of the European Union by 2005.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Asbestos in Italy
Asbestos-related diseases remain common in Italy due to past exposures that were tolerated by a government distracted and manipulated by multinational asbestos corporations. The incidence of asbestos-related cancers has taken on almost epidemic proportions…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Failure to prove asbestos exposure produces obstructive lung disease
…cigarette smoking, lung function and chest radiograph abnormalities in 3,383 patients referred mainly by plaintiff attorneys and trade union members. He noted that the study had reported clinically significant airflow obstruction as well as restrictive…