683 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 4 of 35
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · July 26, 2018
Brazan v. Lamorak Insurance Co. (2018)
The court granted Joseph Brazan's motion to remand to Orleans Parish Civil District Court, holding that Union Carbide and Amchem failed to show complete diversity, and denied his request for costs, fees and sanctions. A…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit · August 23, 2018
Waite v. Aii Acquisition Corp. (2018)
…Union Carbide for lack of personal jurisdiction, ruling against the Waites. In the Eleventh Circuit, specific jurisdiction requires that the defendant's forum contacts be a but-for cause of the claimed tort, and a corporation…
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Court case · Ohio Court of Appeals · March 22, 2012
Bier v. Am. Biltrite (2012)
The appeals court affirmed summary judgment for Union Carbide, ruling that Bier's estate had no evidence that the decedent was exposed to Union Carbide's Calidria asbestos. A plaintiff cannot defeat summary judgment against a…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 10, 2013
Vega v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (2013)
The court denied Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment dismissing the plaintiff's complaint and cross-claims, leaving Glenda Vega's claims against it for trial. Whether a raw asbestos supplier's warnings to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · March 24, 2015
Sherin v. John Crane-Houdaille, Inc. (2015)
…denied the Plaintiffs' motion to remand the remaining claims against Union Carbide and A.W. Chesterton to Baltimore City Circuit Court, retaining supplemental jurisdiction, so Union Carbide prevailed on the motion. A cross-claim for contribution…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 13, 2014
Robertson v. Doug Ashy Building Materials, Inc. (2014)
The court reversed the summary judgment that had dismissed plaintiffs' claims against Union Carbide Corporation, reversed the trial court's order limiting Dr. Eugene Mark's causation testimony, and remanded for further proceedings. A plaintiff in…
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Court case · Rhode Island Superior Court · March 29, 2010
Asbury v. AW Chesterton Company (2010)
The court denied Union Carbide's motion to dismiss for forum non conveniens, so the Asburys' case stays in Rhode Island. It ruled out Rhode Island law, tentatively found Iowa had the most significant relationship, and…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · August 13, 2013
Cisler v. AO Smith Water Products Co. (2013)
The trial court granted Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment and dismissed the plaintiffs' complaint and all cross-claims against it, while the case continued against the other defendants. A plaintiff opposing summary judgment…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida · August 1, 2014
Rothchild v. Crane Co. (2014)
The court granted Union Carbide's motion to dismiss the amended complaint as to Union Carbide only, without prejudice, and gave the Rothchilds 30 days to amend with more specific allegations. A complaint must plead factual…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana · February 28, 2014
Davidson v. Georgia Pacific LLC (2014)
The court granted partial summary judgment for defendants Union Carbide, CertainTeed, Beazer East and Georgia-Pacific, dismissing the plaintiffs' survival claim as prescribed. Under Louisiana law, a voluntary dismissal of an earlier suit erases any interruption…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · May 3, 2013
Liberman v. AO Smith Water Prods. Co. (2013)
The court granted Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment and dismissed the complaint and cross claims against it, because plaintiffs did not show Mr. Liberman was exposed to UCC's asbestos; the case continued…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · May 24, 2017
Romano v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. (2017)
…Marrero; Union Carbide Taft facility; Union Carbide Corporation's Taft facility; Johns-Manville Corporation's plant, Marrero, Marrero stores department worker Union Carbide Corporation's Taft facility 1967-1968; nearby resident Johns-Manville Corporation's plant…
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Court case · Utah Court of Appeals · April 4, 2013
Riggs v. Asbestos Corp. Ltd. (2013)
…the Liability Reform Act applied rather than the Comparative Negligence Act, and Union Carbide's JNOV motion and Georgia-Pacific's directed verdict motion were properly denied, so the jury's verdict for the plaintiff stood.…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · December 15, 2014
Comardelle v. Pennsylvania General Insurance Company (2014)
The court denied Union Carbide's motion to exclude plaintiffs' pathology expert Dr. Hammar and for summary judgment on causation, so plaintiffs' claims against Union Carbide continued. A genuine issue of fact on exposure defeats summary…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · January 7, 2014
Anderson v. Bondex International, Inc. (2014)
…order denying Barbara Anderson leave to amend her complaint, so Georgia-Pacific and Union Carbide prevailed because the amended claims did not relate back and were time-barred. An amended complaint relates back under Fed. R…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida · July 10, 2013
Flomenhoft v. Georgia-Pacific LLC (2013)
Mark Flomenhoft sued Georgia-Pacific LLC and Union Carbide Corporation in Florida state court after being diagnosed with mesothelioma in August 2012. The case was removed to federal court. He claimed he was exposed to asbestos…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · July 21, 2010
Summers v. Certainteed Corp. (2010)
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed the Superior Court's order affirming summary judgment for Union Carbide, Certainteed and Allied Signal, disapproved Quate v. American Standard, and sent the cases back so Summers and Nybeck could proceed…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 17, 2013
Logan v. AP Moller-Maersk, Inc. (2013)
The court denied Union Carbide's cross-motion for summary judgment in its entirety, so plaintiffs John and Gail Logan prevailed, and denied Georgia Pacific's motion as moot because plaintiffs had settled with it. In…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri · July 28, 2014
Pickard v. Dap, Inc. (2014)
The court rejected Union Carbide's claim that Missouri defendant Welco was fraudulently joined, found no removal jurisdiction, and remanded the case to the St. Louis City circuit court, a win for the plaintiffs. A removing…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · July 25, 2016 · in the opinion
Arbogast v. AW Chesterton Co. (2016)
…ECF No. 502-7.) Moreover, both Arbogast and his coworker, Burnham, testified they could not identify the manufacturer of the material to which they referred as "Bakelite." (Def. Union Carbide Mot. Summ. J., Ex. C, Arbogast…