28 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · February 15, 2023
Stauder v. Shell Oil Company (2023)
…Stauder sister $2.75 million in wrongful death damages against Union Carbide and the award of judicial interest running from the original 2016 petition, rejecting Union Carbide's challenges. An appellate court may disturb a general…
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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 · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 20, 2006 · in the opinion
Chaisson v. Avondale Industries, Inc. (2006)
…Zachry contract with Union Carbide was a construction contract, the trial court's usurpation of the jury's role was wholly improper." Mr. Griffin testified about a "construction contract" between Zachry and Union Carbide dated June…
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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 · 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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 24, 2018 · in the opinion
Lopez v. McDERMOTT, Inc. (2018)
…LLP, Janice M. Culotta, Simon, Peragine, Smith and Redfearn, LLP & Louis Oliver Oubre, Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, LLP. Union Carbide Corporation, Defendant, represented by McGready Lewis Richeson, Pugh, Accardo, Haas, Radecker & Carey, Ernest G. Foundas, Pugh…
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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 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…