45 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 3
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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Louisiana Court of Appeals · October 4, 2011
Robertson v. Doug Ashy Building Materials, Inc. (2011)
Harris Robertson, a drywall finisher and painter in residential construction from the early 1960s, was diagnosed with mesothelioma in June 2004 and died that November. His wife and children sued several companies, including Sherwin-Williams, which…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · June 29, 2012
Dixon v. Ford Motor Company (2012)
…cleaned up joint compound during several home construction projects. The plaintiffs settled with Georgia-Pacific, Honeywell and Union Carbide. A jury awarded $15,000,000 against Ford, which the trial court reduced to $6,065,000…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · August 5, 2009
Anderson v. Bondex Int'l (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation, 2009)
…futile; defendants Bondex, Georgia-Pacific and Union Carbide prevailed. An amended pleading relates back under Rule 15(c)(1)(B) only if it arises from the conduct, transaction or occurrence set out in the original pleading…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · July 10, 2009
Anderson v. Bondex Int'l (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation, 2009)
…RPM, Georgia-Pacific and Union Carbide to exclude evidence of plaintiff Anderson's exposure to joint compound dust during sanding and cleanup, holding the Virginia statute of repose did not bar it. Under Virginia's statute…
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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…