17 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · February 26, 2020
Union Carbide Corporation v. Font (2020)
…the final judgment for Paula Font against Union Carbide and remanded for a third trial, because excluded affidavits and a flawed learned intermediary instruction were errors, while rejecting Union Carbide's causation argument and Font's…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · March 21, 2019
Billok v. Union Carbide Corp. (2019)
The Appellate Division reversed the judgment entered on a jury verdict for Union Carbide and remitted for a new trial, because deposition testimony from other lawsuits was wrongly admitted; plaintiff Billok prevailed on the appeal. Under…
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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. District Court, Middle District of Florida · July 10, 2013
Flomenhoft v. Georgia-Pacific LLC (2013)
Mark Flomenhoft sued Georgia-Pacific LLC and Union Carbide Corporation in Florida state court after being diagnosed with mesothelioma in August 2012. The case was removed to federal court. He claimed he was exposed to asbestos…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · July 25, 2016 · in the opinion
Arbogast v. AW Chesterton Co. (2016)
…ECF No. 502-7.) Moreover, both Arbogast and his coworker, Burnham, testified they could not identify the manufacturer of the material to which they referred as "Bakelite." (Def. Union Carbide Mot. Summ. J., Ex. C, Arbogast…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 23, 2014
Robertson v. Doug Ashy Building Materials, Inc. (2014)
Harris Robertson died of mesothelioma in 2004. His wife and children sued several companies, including joint compound maker Georgia-Pacific, claiming he was exposed to asbestos while working as a sheetrock finisher. His brothers, who worked with…
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Court case · Utah Supreme Court · January 30, 2015
Riggs v. Georgia-Pacific LLC (2015)
The Utah Supreme Court affirmed the district court's denial of Georgia-Pacific's and Union Carbide's motion to dismiss, holding the heirs' wrongful death suit was not barred by the decedent's earlier personal…
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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, 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 · New York Supreme Court · February 5, 2018
Matter of Adesso v. AO Smith Water Prods. Co. (2018)
…auto repair and laundering a husband's work clothes. Defendants including Foster Wheeler, Union Carbide and Cleaver-Brooks opposed. The judge applied the standard that joint trials need a plain identity of issues, looking at worksites…
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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 · New York Supreme Court · October 21, 2013
Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation v. AW Chesterton Co., Inc. (2013)
Seven plaintiffs, or their estates, brought asbestos injury suits in New York County. Six had mesothelioma and one, Perez, had lung cancer. Their cases were part of an "In Extremis" trial group, and they asked for a joint trial. Their alleged…
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Court case · Connecticut Supreme Court · September 14, 2020 · in the opinion
Dougan v. Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (2020)
…Ct. 499, 181 L. Ed. 2d 347 (2011); June v. Union Carbide Corp., 577 F.3d 1234, 1249 (10th Cir. 2009) ("It is true that a number of courts have recognized \[medical monitoring\] claims. . . premised on…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 18, 2021 · in the opinion
Phipps v. Copeland Corporation LLC (2021)
…Asbestos Cases (2020) 44 Cal.App.5th 475, 488; see Izell v. Union Carbide Corp. (2014) 231 Cal.App.4th 962, 975 (Izell) \["As our Supreme Court explained in Rutherford, \\[t\]he substantial factor standard is…
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Court case · Connecticut Supreme Court · December 18, 2019 · in the opinion
Dougan v. Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. (2019)
…181 L. Ed. 2d 347 (2011); June v. Union Carbide Corp., 577 F.3d 1234, 1249 (10th Cir. 2009) ("It is true that a number of courts have recognized \[medical monitoring\] claims ... premised on subclinical effects…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · July 16, 2021 · in the opinion
Cox v. Foster Wheeler (In re Asbestos Litigation, 2021)
…512 (1988). The defense is applicable to both design defect and failure to warn claims. See, e.g., Mac Queen v. Union Carbide Corp., C.A. No. 13-831-SLR-CJB, 2013 WL 6571808, at [\3…