27 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Company or organization · People and organizations
Union Carbide Corporation
…Central Purchasing Department, Division 28, CED's Safety and Fire Protection Technology Group, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Technology Services (Union Carbide), Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Exploration Department, Bound Brook Pilot Plant, Construction Safety Department, South Charleston Technical Center…
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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 · 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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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 · Texas Court of Appeals · August 31, 1990
Celotex Corp. v. Tate (1990)
…and mixed sacks of raw chrysotile asbestos, and was also exposed while working as an electrician. Union Carbide settled during trial for $900,000. A jury then returned actual and punitive damages against George Rowley, Inc…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of New York · August 1, 2012
Tycz v. Asbeka Industries OF New York, Inc. (2012)
…It argued that the New York defendants, including Niagara Insulations (an alleged supplier of Johns Manville products) and Union Carbide (alleged to have supplied asbestos fibers to Johns Manville), had been fraudulently joined to defeat diversity…
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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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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 Louisiana · July 28, 2022 · in the opinion
Cortez v. Lamorak Insurance Company (2022)
…the defendant; (2) the thing had a vice or defect which created an unreasonable risk of harm; and (3) the injuries were caused by this defect.'" Smith v. Union Carbide Corp., No. 13-6323, 2014 WL…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · July 20, 1962
R. J. Sexton to G. J. Ratcliffe Enclosing Union Carbide's Survey of New Thermobestos Blocks (1962)
…describes this document as follows: Dr. R. J. Sexton memo to G. J. Ratcliffe (Industrial Relations, Union Carbide), 7/20/63, entitled "Insulation Block Dust Survey, Construction Insulation Shop, Plant 511." Dr. Sexton encloses R. E…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · March 21, 1962
R. J. Sexton to L. N. Dickinson Enclosing Union Carbide's Thermobestos and Kaylo Dust Survey (1962)
…Peele's report indicates that the survey was prompted by complaints from Union Carbide employees in the Construction Shop of "uncomfortable and dusty working conditions." Peele's report concludes that the fabrication of Thermobestos insulation blocks…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · October 23, 1963
R. J. Sexton to S. C. Giambruno Enclosing Union Carbide's Third Insulation Block Dust Survey (1963)
…D. Young (Industrial Hygienist, Union Carbide) to F. P. Lamham (Fabrication Shop, Union Carbide), 8/24/65, indicating that a negligible health hazard might be created by using grinder machines to cut Carey-Temp block. Related…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · June 1972
Union Carbide Asbestos Packing Bag Caution Label, 'Original Asbestos Packing Bag' (June 1972)
A page showing a Union Carbide asbestos packing bag bearing a caution label, captioned 'Original Asbestos Packing Bag' and dated June 1972. The label text, which is legible only in the image, warns that the bag…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Union Carbide Regional Sales Office Map Showing King City and Four Regions (undated)
…Francisco, Cleveland, New York and Atlanta with dots and King City with a star. Listed beside the map are the addresses and phone numbers of Union Carbide's Northeastern, Southern, Midwest and Western regional offices. The…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 16, 1971
Memorandum on the Relationship of RG-244 to FMC German Patent 1,567,517 and U.S. Patent 3,458,393 (1971)
Memorandum that describes the then-current four-step process for making RG-244, in which sodium silicate and acetic acid deposit a siliceous layer on asbestos. It compares that process with the claims of FMC's German patent 1,567,517 and U.S. patent…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 1, 1972
Asbestos Work Practices at Plant 512 and 511 Construction (1972)
A two-page unsigned document dated 12-1-72 summarizing asbestos work practices at Plant 512 and 511 construction. It counts 61 in-plant employees working with asbestos and describes insulation removal, clean-up, waste disposal, dust control, and…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · September 29, 1975
H. B. Rhodes to R. E. Byrne, Jr. and Others on the 1975 Brighton Occupational Health Congress (1975)
…indexed the Motley 1,000 in 1984. Its index describes this document as follows: H.B. Rhodes (Union Carbide) memo to R.E. Byrne, et al. (Union Carbide), 9/29/75, entitled "Visit to the 18th…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · December 4, 1962
R. J. Sexton to S. C. Giambruno on Johns-Manville's Thermobestos Proposal (1962)
…G. Comerford of Union Carbide's own Design and Construction department, who said "we should not back down on our requirements" but that it might be wise to consider J-M's proposal "in light of…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 16, 2017
Cunningham v. Aerco Intl. (2017)
Eleven plaintiffs, or their estates, in New York City asbestos litigation had sued many defendants. Eight alleged mesothelioma and three alleged lung cancer. Their lawyers asked the court to try the cases together in two large groups, or…