15 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · November 21, 2014
Izell v. Union Carbide Corporation (2014)
The Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment for Bobbie and Helen Izell against Union Carbide, upholding the liability finding, the fault allocation, the remitted $6 million compensatory award and the $18 million punitive award. A plaintiff…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · December 19, 2019
Union Carbide Corporation v. Torres (2019)
The court affirmed the judgment for Oscar and Dora Torres against Union Carbide Corporation, but reversed the judgment against Garlock's successor GST Settlement Facility and rendered a take-nothing judgment for Garlock. A premises owner…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · October 22, 2014
Izell v. Union Carbide Corporation (2014)
The Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment for Bobbie and Helen Izell against Union Carbide, including the remitted $6 million compensatory award and the $18 million punitive award; one justice dissented in part on the punitive…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · August 20, 2015
Oddo v. Asbestos Corporation Ltd. (2015)
…affirmed Ford's liability, reallocated fault to Ford 65%, Union Carbide 25% and Higgins 10%, and amended the survival damages award against Ford, so the plaintiffs lost against Southern Talc but kept their judgment against Ford…
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Court case · Kentucky Supreme Court · December 16, 2010 · in the opinion
Certainteed Corporation v. Dexter (2010)
…Corp.; Motion Industries, Inc.; Southern Manufacturing, Inc.; Triangle Insulation and Sheetmetal Co.; Union Carbide Corp.; and Westinghouse Electric Corp. \[2\] These additional defendants were: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.; Arkema, Inc.; CC Metals and Alloys, LLC…
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Court case · California Supreme Court · May 23, 2016 · in the opinion
Webb v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2016)
…com. n, pp. 309-310; Aubin v. Union Carbide Corp., supra, 177 So.3d at p. 515.) It is also significant if, under the circumstances giving rise to the plaintiff's claim, the intermediary itself had…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 10, 2013 · in the opinion
Webb v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2013)
…The raw asbestos supplied by Special Electric to Johns-Manville constitutes a "product" under the negligence and strict liability provisions of California law. (Stewart v. Union Carbide Corp. (2010) 190 Cal.App.4th 23, 29 (Stewart)…
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Court case · Florida Supreme Court · October 15, 2018 · in the opinion
DeLisle v. Crane Co. (2018)
…f/k/a Georgia-Pacific Corp.; Goulds Pumps, Inc.; Union Carbide Corp.; Brightwater; and Owens-Corning Fiberglass. Lorillard contested DeLisle's use of Kent cigarettes. DeLisle testified that he smoked on average a pack of Kent…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · November 9, 2016 · in the opinion
Crane Co. v. DeLisle (2016)
…f/k/a Georgia-Pacific Corp.; Goulds Pumps, Inc.; Union Carbide Corp.; Brightwater; and Owens-Corning Fiberglass. Lorillard contested DeLisle's use of Kent cigarettes. DeLisle testified that he smoked on average a pack of Kent…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · December 21, 2016 · in the opinion
Baeza v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2016)
…warnings, safety requirements, and union strike activities—were relevant to the jury's evaluation of plaintiffs' design defect claim. The court overruled Farrise's objection. The court stated that the jury had been properly instructed, further…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · July 1, 2019 · in the opinion
Noll v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2019)
…2013. In the late 1970's, Noll worked with asbestos-cement pipe manufactured by the CertainTeed Corporation. Special Electric provided large quantities of asbestos to CertainTeed's Santa Clara plant in the 1970's, including a…
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Court case · Washington Supreme Court · June 8, 2017 · in the opinion
Noll v. American Biltrite Inc. (2017)
…3600, Seattle, WA, 98104-7010, for Petitioner. Brian D. Weinstein, Benjamin Robert Couture, Alexandra Brett Caggiano, Weinstein Couture PLLC, 601 Union Street, Suite 2420, Seattle, WA, 98101, William A. Kohlburn, Ryan J. Kiwala, Simmons Hanly Conroy…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · February 10, 2015 · in the opinion
Green v. CertainTEED Corporation (2015)
…burden, the burden shifts to the plaintiff to show the existence of a triable issue of material fact as to that cause of action. (Union Bank v. Superior Court (1995) 31 Cal.App.4th 573, 583…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 15, 2019 · in the opinion
Burch v. Certainteed Corporation (2019)
…they were judicially construed in 1986 to apply to strict product liability cases\].) To the extent ambiguity exists, Proposition 51's ballot materials also aid our construction. (See Amador Valley Joint Union High Sch. Dist. v…
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Court case · Kentucky Court of Appeals · February 14, 2014 · in the opinion
McGuire v. Lorillard Tobacco Company (2014)
…product that is unreasonably dangerous in the market, it has violated its duty under a negligence standard and may be found strictly liable. See Nichols v. Union Underwear Co., 602 S.W.2d 429, 433 (Ky.