124 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 7
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · February 27, 2009
Bakkie v. Union Carbide Corporation (2009)
The Court of Appeal modified the judgment to reduce Bakkie's net economic damages against Union Carbide from $2,779,601.22 to $2,130,652.06, affirmed it as modified, and dismissed the purported appeal…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · November 29, 2007
Bakkie v. Union Carbide Corporation (2007)
The Court of Appeal affirmed the jury's liability findings against Union Carbide and the denial of its JNOV motion, but reversed the $14.1 million future noneconomic damages award as excessive and ordered a new…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · October 1, 2009
Union Carbide Corporation v. Smith (2009)
…judgment for Oliver and Peggy Smith and rendered a take-nothing judgment for Union Carbide and Hexion, holding there was no evidence of Union Carbide's control and that the workers' compensation exclusive remedy barred the…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · November 4, 2008
Taylor v. Union Carbide Corporation (2008)
The Court of Appeals reversed the summary judgment granted to Union Carbide and remanded for trial, ruling for David Taylor and his wife. A plaintiff may use circumstantial evidence to show exposure to a defendant's…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · May 3, 2005
Benjamin v. Union Carbide Corporation (2005)
Affirmed summary judgment for Union Carbide and Georgia Pacific on the survival action as time-barred, but reversed it on the wrongful death action and remanded, so Elsie Benjamin may continue that claim. In a survival…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota · September 8, 2003
Conwed Corp. v. Union Carbide Corp. (2003)
The district court denied Union Carbide's renewed motion for summary judgment on bulk supplier/sophisticated user grounds, leaving Conwed's subrogation claim against Union Carbide to proceed. Under Minnesota law, a supplier's reliance on…
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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 · California Court of Appeal · December 17, 2007
Slaughter v. Union Carbide Corp. (2007)
Ronald and Edna Slaughter sued 39 manufacturers and distributors of asbestos-containing products in Los Angeles County. Edna had been diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2006 and died in December of that year. They alleged she was exposed while they…
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Court case · Georgia Court of Appeals · January 27, 2005
Flowers v. Union Carbide Corp. (2005)
The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment entered on a jury verdict for Union Carbide, rejecting the Flowers family's claims of error on excluded evidence, the handling of the Georgia-Pacific stipulation, and the…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · August 2, 2006
Georgia-Pacific Corporation v. Benjamin (2006)
The Court of Appeals of Maryland affirmed the intermediate appellate court: the survival action against Georgia-Pacific and Union Carbide was time-barred, but summary judgment for the defendants on the wrongful death action was error…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · September 16, 2002
Wilson v. AP Green Industries, Inc. (2002)
Pamela Perry Wilson, administratrix of the estate of Dolly Chase, sued several companies, including Flintkote, in a products liability action. Chase was diagnosed with mesothelioma in May 1998 and died in August 1999. The complaint alleged that…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 9, 2009
Bourque v. Anco Insulations, Inc. (2009)
Eddie Bourque Jr. and his wife sued several defendants, including his former employer Lake Charles Stevedores, claiming his malignant mesothelioma came from asbestos exposure during his work there from the 1950s through the 1970s. Stevedores moved…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · December 26, 2001
Burns v. AP Green Industries, Inc. (2001)
Howard Burns, an industrial arts teacher who also did summer construction and maintenance work at Moweaqua High School in Shelby County, Illinois, from 1951 to 1986, was diagnosed with mesothelioma in April 2000. He and his wife, Caren, sued many…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · September 21, 2004
Jessop v. Acf Industries, LLC (2004)
Janet Jessop, a Kansas resident, sued several companies in Philadelphia, as administrator of her late husband's estate and in her own right. She alleged Harold Jessop died of mesothelioma from asbestos exposure during sixteen years as an electrician…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · February 2, 2009
Wangen v. Gardner Denver, Inc. (2009)
William Wangen, a lifelong Washington resident, and his wife Mary Jo sued more than three dozen defendants in California. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2007. He alleged asbestos exposure on the USS Wiltsie in the Navy from 1950 to 1954,…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · May 19, 2008
Berry v. American Standard, Inc. (2008)
Howard Berry and his wife Linnie Kathryn Berry sued 47 defendants in Crawford County, Illinois, in 2004. They sought damages for his exposure to asbestos on various job sites; he had been diagnosed with terminal mesothelioma. The opinion does not…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · October 21, 2009
DiBenedetto v. Noble Drilling Company (2009)
Blaise DiBenedetto sued many defendants, including former employers, saying he developed malignant mesothelioma from asbestos exposure. He worked for Noble Drilling Company from 1972 to 1974 and then for stevedoring companies on the New Orleans…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · December 11, 2001 · in the opinion
Dykstra v. AP Green Industries, Inc. (2001)
…Louis, Inc., Defendants (Burns International Security Corporation, f/k/a Borg-Warner and Borg- Warner Corporation, Certain-Teed Corporation, Pfizer, Inc., Quigley Company, Inc., and Union Carbide Corporation, Defendants-Appellants). No. 5-01-0112. December 11…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · July 3, 2008 · in the opinion
Gregory v. Beazer East (2008)
…Beazer), Bondex International (Bondex), Exxon Mobil (Mobil), Georgia-Pacific Corporation (Georgia-Pacific) and Union Carbide Corporation (Union Carbide), regarding her husband's contraction of mesothelioma and subsequent death. Mobil moved for summary judgment on various grounds…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · March 7, 2005 · in the opinion
Brown v. Crown Cork & Seal Company (2005)
…LLC; METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO.; FOSTER WHEELER ENERGY CORPORATION; SABERHAGEN HOLDINGS, INC.; ASBESTOS CORPORATION, LTD.; UNIROYAL, INC..; E.J. BARTELLS SETTLEMENT TRUST; CERTAIN-TEED CORPORATION; FLINTKOTE CORPORATION; UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION; GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY; and ALLIED-SIGNAL…