35 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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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. 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 · 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. District Court, District of North Dakota · March 28, 1990
Puppe By Puppe v. AC and S., Inc. (1990)
Vernon Puppe died of mesothelioma in 1984. His wife and two daughters sued a number of asbestos-related companies in a wrongful death action, which was removed to federal court in North Dakota. They claimed he was exposed in 1959 as an insulation…
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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 · New York Supreme Court · March 17, 2020
Peterson v. Vanderbilt Mineral (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
Stanley Peterson, diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma in 2017, and his wife Debby sued Vanderbilt Mineral, LLC and others. They alleged he was exposed to asbestos in Vanderbilt's NYTAL talc while working part-time at his wife's ceramics…
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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 · 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. District Court, District of Delaware · November 19, 2019
Mosher v. ABB (In re Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…Pfizer, Siemens, Union Carbide and Warren Pumps) against plaintiffs Kent and Cathy Mosher, who did not respond to the motions. Under maritime law and Colorado law, a plaintiff must show exposure to each defendant's asbestos…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 24, 2020
Peterson v. Vanderbilt Minerals (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
Stanley Peterson and his wife Debby sued several companies in New York County, claiming his pleural mesothelioma, diagnosed in March 2017, came from asbestos in talc. He said that from 1980 to 2000 he worked part-time at his wife's ceramics business…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · June 26, 2016
Rublee v. Carrier Corp. (2016)
Vernon Rublee died of mesothelioma in 2015. He had worked as a machinist at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard from 1965 to 1980, where other workers mixed and applied asbestos-containing refractory products called Insulag and Panelag around the steam…
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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 · Illinois Appellate Court · December 11, 2001 · in the opinion
Dykstra v. AP Green Industries, Inc. (2001)
…Louis, Inc., Defendants (Burns International Security Corporation, f/k/a Borg-Warner and Borg- Warner Corporation, Certain-Teed Corporation, Pfizer, Inc., Quigley Company, Inc., and Union Carbide Corporation, Defendants-Appellants). No. 5-01-0112. December 11…
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Court case · Oregon Court of Appeals · April 10, 2013 · in the opinion
Greer v. Ace Hardware Corporation (2013)
…Deceased, Plaintiff- Appellant, v. ACE HARDWARE CORPORATION, an Illinois corporation, etal, and UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION, Defendants, and GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, a Georgia corporation; BACKSTROM BUILDERS CENTER, an Oregon corporation, as successor-in-interest to Backstrom Builders…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · June 26, 2017 · in the opinion
Rublee v. Carrier Corporation (2017)
…as successor in interest to PIONEER SAND & GRAVEL COMPANY; METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY; SABERHAGEN HOLDINGS, INC.; UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION; and WARREN PUMPS, LLC, individually and as successor in interest to QUIMBY PUMP COMPANY, Defendants, PFIZER, INC.…
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Court case · Texas Supreme Court · July 11, 2014 · in the opinion
Bostic v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. (2014)
…Baker Botts LLP, Sharla J. Frost, Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, Houston, TX, for Amicus Curiae Union Carbide Corporation. Karen K. Maston, Johnson Spalding Doyle West & Trent, Houston, TX, for Other interested party Amtek, Inc.…