111 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 6
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 4, 2016
Bourke v. Exxon Mobil Corporation (2016)
Julius David Bourke sued Exxon Mobil, Georgia-Pacific, Union Carbide, Taylor-Seidenbach and Eagle in a New Orleans state court. He alleged asbestos exposure causing malignant mesothelioma. He said he was exposed as a child through…
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Person · People and organizations
W. S. Young
Union Carbide Corporation Advertising Manager, Residential Products Division at Johns-Manville
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Person · People and organizations
Calvin Thompson
Research and Development Department Mining and Metals Division Union Carbide Corporation Manager Physical Distribution - Plan., Material Control at Johns-Manville
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 30, 2023
Ragusa v. Louisiana Guaranty Insurance Association (2023)
Frank Ragusa, Jr. sued numerous companies in Louisiana state court in 2021 over asbestos exposure, alleging negligence and intentional torts; Avondale removed the case to federal court. Ragusa has mesothelioma. The opinion mentions his exposure to…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · July 5, 2017 · in the opinion
Petitpas v. Ford Motor Company (2017)
… Metropolitan Life Insurance; William B. March; and Union Carbide Corporation. In addition, in responses to requests for admissions that were read to the jury, plaintiffs admitted that Marline was exposed to asbestos-containing products manufactured or…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 29, 2022 · in the opinion
Hotard v. Avondale Industries, Inc. (2022)
…Union Carbide Corporation — which E&S rely upon — because in that case there was "no\[\] dispute" that the owner of a chemical plant lacked "ownership of the asbestos at the time of installation," which was when…
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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 · Louisiana Court of Appeals · May 31, 2006
Thomas v. AP Green Industries, Inc. (2006)
The surviving spouse and five adult children of Namon Joshua, Jr., a carpenter who died of lung cancer in 2001, sued several premises owners. He also had asbestos-related pleural plaques. He worked for contractors at the Waterford power plants in…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · August 31, 2017 · in the opinion
Krik v. Exxon Mobil Corp. (2017)
…3 (J. Shah). Many other courts have rejected the Helsinki criteria for similar reasons. See, e.g., Rockman v. Union Carbide Corp., No. CV RDB-16-1169, 2017 WL 3022969, at [\5] (D. Md. July 17…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · April 26, 2010 · in the opinion
Anderson v. AJ Friedman Supply Co. (2010)
…Inc., SVI Corporation, individually and as successor to Stockholm Valves & Fittings, Inc., T.J. McGlone & Co. Inc., the Anchor Packing Co., the Foxboro Company, the Walworth Company, Trilco Supply Company, Union Pump Co., Union Carbide Corp.…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · July 6, 2020 · in the opinion
Lopez v. McDERMOTT, Inc (2020)
…and Root\]. The conditions found on a construction site are not a basis for strict liability." R. Doc. 499-2 at 22 (citing Smith v. Union Carbide Corp., No. CIV.A. 13-6323, 2014 WL 4930457…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 22, 2024 · in the opinion
Williams v. JM Manufacturing Company, Inc. (2024)
…was exposed to asbestos from asbestos-cement pipe supplied by J-MM. Relying on Izell v. Union Carbide Corp. (2014) 231 Cal.App.4th 962 (Izell), J-MM contends that Cornelius only raised a "mere possibility…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · July 3, 1969
Matthew M. Swetonic (Johns-Manville) to J. A. Riddle on Sending Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program Reports (1969)
…Riddle, Union Carbide, July 3, 1969, enclosing IIHRP reports Insulation Hygiene Progress Reports, Vol. 1 No. 1 (Spring 1969), from the Insulation Industry Hygiene Research Program at Mount Sinai: program funding, advisory council, respirator, PHS cooperation…
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Person · People and organizations
C. E. Fry
Union Carbide employee in the Silicones & Urethane Intermediates Division, 1983–1984. Received J. S. Cornell's 1983 memos on asbestos-related medical issues and exposure limits, and copies of memos on OSHA's asbestos standard and…
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Person · People and organizations
R. J. Sexton
Plant medical director at Union Carbide's Institute plant near Charleston, West Virginia, 1962–1981; forwarded industrial hygiene dust surveys of Johns-Manville Thermobestos and other insulation blocks, wrote that Thermobestos dust was a hazard to…
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Person · People and organizations
Jim Collins
Vice president of Union Carbide's Metals Division (1977–1980); wrote to CPSC commissioners opposing a proposed ban on asbestos joint compounds, received Calidria sales, export, lobbying and presentation memos, and sent a 1980 Grace distributor…
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Person · People and organizations
Edmund M. Fenner
…of environmental services (1978); chaired the Asbestos Information Association/North America's Standards and Technical Committee in 1974. Reported on company dust sampling and fiber limits, proposed product warning-label rules, and corresponded with Union Carbide.
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Company document · WARD Documents · August 10, 1982
Fran Swaney to Pam Johnson on J-M Customer Numbers for Texas Contractors and Plants, with Brown & Root Sales Printouts (1982)
…Zachry and others), Brown & Root of Houston, and the Union Carbide plant at Seadrift, the Celanese plant at Bishop and the Du Pont plant at Victoria. Handwritten answers give numbers for five companies and "None" for…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · December 15, 1975
W. B. Reitze and J. T. Vanderveen on Replacing Thermobestos with Thermo-12 in Brazil (1975)
…Thermobestos was J-M's asbestos calcium silicate pipe and block insulation; its dustiness was documented in the 1960s (Union Carbide's 1962 dust surveys). In 1977 Reitze found Thermobestos still being made and installed in…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · 1962
Johns-Manville File on William S. McKinney's Ohio Workmen's Compensation Claim (1962)
…of Ohio Bureau of Workmen's Compensation in 1962. McKinney alleged that he contracted asbestosis in both lungs while employed by J-M in removing insulation materials at Union Carbide's Bakelite Company in Marietta, Ohio…