11 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Court case · Florida Supreme Court · October 29, 2015
Aubin v. Union Carbide Corporation (2015)
…Court quashed the Third District's reversal and ordered the jury verdict and judgment for William Aubin against Union Carbide reinstated. Florida keeps the consumer expectations test from the Second Restatement for strict liability design defect…
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Court case · Delaware Superior Court · August 15, 2019
Robinson v. Union Carbide Corporation (2019)
The Delaware Superior Court granted Union Carbide's motion for summary judgment against Marianne Robinson, ruling for Union Carbide on both the failure-to-warn claim and the Ohio strict liability claim. Under Ohio law, a…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · June 22, 2011
Bozeman v. Union Carbide Corporation (2011)
Jerry Bozeman worked as a Shreveport firefighter from 1965 to 1998, mostly at Fire Station No. 8, built in the 1920s. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2004 and died in 2005. His sons sued the City as his employer, along with several…
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Court case · Delaware Superior Court · September 28, 2020
Gibbs v. 84 Lumber Company (2020)
The court granted Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment on the Gibbses' design-defect and failure-to-warn claims. Under South Carolina law as applied by the court, a raw-material supplier of asbestos…
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Company or organization · People and organizations
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
…Gypsum Division it made joint compounds, textures and patching plaster containing chrysotile asbestos until 1977, using fiber bought partly from Union Carbide. In 2017 the company split itself under Texas law, placing its asbestos liabilities in…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · December 9, 2010 · in the opinion
Larson v. Bondex Int'l (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation, 2010)
\[6\] Defendant Union Carbide is sued as a "supplier defendant" for supplying asbestos fiber that was incorporated into other products, in this case as a supplier to Defendant Georgia-Pacific for use in its joint compound…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · November 22, 2010
Larson v. Georgia Pacific (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation, 2010)
Dianna Larson was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2006. She and her husband sued Georgia Pacific, Union Carbide, Bondex and others. They alleged she was exposed to chrysotile asbestos in joint compound while building two homes in…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 7, 1974
J. R. Hurd to W. A. Nalbone on Asbestos Caution Labels for Joint System Products (1974)
Georgia-Pacific intracompany memo replying to a June 3, 1974 letter from W. A. Nalbone about changes to asbestos caution labels on joint system products. The writer said the new label wording complied with OSHA regulations, that the added respirator…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 10, 1974
C. W. Lehnert to Ed Sing on Asbestos Caution Labels at Georgia-Pacific (1974)
A Georgia-Pacific interdepartmental communication dated June 10, 1974, from C. W. Lehnert (Tigard) to Ed Sing (Acme) about asbestos caution labels. It stated that the labels in use met the OSHA requirement but lacked an additional statement…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 27, 1971
M. F. Fink to Georgia-Pacific Plant Managers on Mica-Asbestos Controls (1971)
A Georgia-Pacific interdepartmental communication from M. F. Fink in Portland about controls for mica and asbestos handling in light of OSHA standards. It discussed threshold limits for mica dust, recommended Dustfoe 66 respirators, and said…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana · June 6, 1995 · in the opinion
Harris v. AC & S, Inc. (1995)
…seeks to offer evidence through exhibits, they must be identified by affidavit or otherwise be admissible. Martz v. Union Labor Life Insurance Co., 757 F.2d 135, 138 (7th Cir.1985). "Supporting materials designed to establish…