27 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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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 · 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 · 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 · U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana · July 14, 2014
Davidson v. Georgia Pacific LLC (2014)
…Beazer East, Georgia-Pacific and Union Carbide, dismissing the plaintiffs' claims with prejudice and dismissing the third-party complaints as moot. An expert's "every exposure" theory of asbestos causation is inadmissible under Rule 702 and…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · April 4, 2018
Kister v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (In re Asbestos Litigation, 2018)
…judgment to Buffalo Pumps, Fairbanks, CertainTeed, Foster Wheeler, Union Carbide, Aurora and Pfizer, because Mr. Kister identified none of their asbestos-containing products and the plaintiff did not respond. Under maritime law, a plaintiff must show…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · April 19, 2016
Davidson v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (2016)
William Davidson was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2010 and sued manufacturers, suppliers and contractors in Louisiana state court. The case was removed to federal court, and Davidson died in 2011. After his first suit was dismissed without…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 28, 2017
Klock v. Albany Intl. Corp. (2017)
Two men, William McIntosh and Leonard Gaumes, both developed mesothelioma. Both had worked at the Gouverneur Talc mine in overlapping years. McIntosh died in November 2015, and his estate, represented by Christine Klock, sued. Gaumes and his wife…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana · January 6, 2014
Davidson v. Georgia Pacific, LLC (2014)
…children of William Cleve Davidson sued Georgia-Pacific, Beazer East, CertainTeed and Union Carbide in a wrongful death and survival action. Davidson had earlier sued for personal injury, alleging he was exposed to asbestos from the…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · May 22, 2017
Smith v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (2017)
Ronald Smith sued many companies in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, state court, alleging he developed mesothelioma from asbestos exposure. One defendant, Taylor-Seidenbach, a local insulation contractor and supplier, was a Louisiana citizen like Smith.…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 20, 2017
Altman v. Ford Motor Co. (In re New York City Asbetos Litigation, 2017)
…1950s-1980s; helper in boiler and furnace removal and installation stepfather's boiler and furnace business 1950s; worker at a construction products company 1970s; handyman 1970s and 1980s; union carpenter various construction sites 1960s to 1980s
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · June 27, 1996
Georgine v. Amchem Products, Inc. (1996)
Twenty asbestos companies, acting together as the Center for Claims Resolution, and class counsel agreed to settle the asbestos injury claims of a nationwide class estimated at 250,000 to 2,000,000 people. The class included people with…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · January 12, 2016 · in the opinion
Herbert v. American Biltrite (2016)
… AZROCK INDUSTRIES, INC.; CERTAINTEED CORPORATION; DAVIS FETCH CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA; EGGERS INDUSTRIES; GEORGIA PACIFIC CORPORATION; H.B. FULLER COMPANY; HAJOCA CORPORATION; KAISER GYPSUM COMPANY, INC.; UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION AND ITS LINDE DIVISION; WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY, Appellees. No…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 29, 2017 · in the opinion
Leech v. 3M Company (2017)
…Lassus, Jr., Hailey, McNamara, Hall, Larmann & Papale & Richard J. Garvey, Jr., Hailey, McNamara, Hall, Larmann & Papale. Union Carbide Corporation, Defendant, represented by McGready Lewis Richeson, Pugh, Accardo, Haas, Radecker & Carey, Francis Xavier deBlanc, III, Pugh, Accardo…
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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 · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · May 23, 2012 · in the opinion
Betz v. Pneumo Abex LLC (2012)
…to which the plaintiff was exposed, coupled with evidence that the dose was a substantial factor in causing the asbestos-related disease"); Butler v. Union Carbide Corp., 310 Ga.App. 21, 712 S.E.2d 537…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · April 15, 2015
Stellar v. Allied Signal, Inc. (2015)
…Liability, and Workers' Compensation; Venue, Removal and Transfer; Wrongful Death and Survival; Loss of Consortium; Federal Preemption Worksites: Mack Trucks facility; Mack Trucks facility, Allentown, Allentown steelworker; union bargaining unit member Mack Trucks facility, Allentown Allentown
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 13, 2009
Silvestro v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc. (2009)
…and Settlement Credits; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: his home and side construction jobs; engine rooms on ships union cement mason on residential and commercial construction projects 1946-1966; side construction jobs hanging drywall; home remodeling…