116 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 2 of 6
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · September 16, 2014
Sherin v. John Crane-Houdaille, Inc. (2014)
The court denied Union Carbide's motion in limine and its summary judgment motion on product identification, exposure and causation, but granted summary judgment to Union Carbide on the duty-to-warn claim and on the…
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Court case · New Jersey Supreme Court · June 30, 2022
Fowler v. Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc. (2022)
The New Jersey Supreme Court reversed the Appellate Division, reinstated the jury's verdict and $2,380,000 award for the Edenfield estate against Union Carbide, and remanded for any remaining issues. An asbestos manufacturer or…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · October 4, 2011
Robertson v. Doug Ashy Building Materials, Inc. (2011)
The appeals court reversed the summary judgment that had dismissed Union Carbide, and reversed the order striking part of Dr. Mark's testimony, so the plaintiffs (Harris Robertson's wife and children) won and the case…
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Court case · Ohio Court of Appeals · March 22, 2012
Bier v. Am. Biltrite (2012)
The appeals court affirmed summary judgment for Union Carbide, ruling that Bier's estate had no evidence that the decedent was exposed to Union Carbide's Calidria asbestos. A plaintiff cannot defeat summary judgment against a…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 10, 2013
Vega v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (2013)
The court denied Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment dismissing the plaintiff's complaint and cross-claims, leaving Glenda Vega's claims against it for trial. Whether a raw asbestos supplier's warnings to…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 13, 2014
Robertson v. Doug Ashy Building Materials, Inc. (2014)
The court reversed the summary judgment that had dismissed plaintiffs' claims against Union Carbide Corporation, reversed the trial court's order limiting Dr. Eugene Mark's causation testimony, and remanded for further proceedings. A plaintiff in…
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Court case · Utah Court of Appeals · April 4, 2013
Riggs v. Asbestos Corp. Ltd. (2013)
…the Liability Reform Act applied rather than the Comparative Negligence Act, and Union Carbide's JNOV motion and Georgia-Pacific's directed verdict motion were properly denied, so the jury's verdict for the plaintiff stood.…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · May 26, 2021
Fowler v. Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc. (2021)
The Appellate Division reversed the judgment against Union Carbide, vacated the $2,380,000 verdict for plaintiff, and remanded for a new trial because of erroneous jury instructions on the duty to warn and on medical…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 17, 2013
Logan v. AP Moller-Maersk, Inc. (2013)
The court denied Union Carbide's cross-motion for summary judgment in its entirety, so plaintiffs John and Gail Logan prevailed, and denied Georgia Pacific's motion as moot because plaintiffs had settled with it. In…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · May 24, 2010
Larson v. Georgia Pacific (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation, 2010)
…She and her family sued Georgia-Pacific, Bondex, RPM and Union Carbide, which were alleged to have made or sold chrysotile-containing joint compound. She said she was exposed in the 1970s while building two homes…
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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 · New York Supreme Court · September 8, 2010
Horn v. A.W. Chesterson Co. (In re Matter of New York City Asbestos Litig., 2010)
Ten asbestos cases, brought by plaintiffs represented by the same law firm, were assigned to one New York County judge for trial. Eight of the plaintiffs, alleging mesothelioma, asked the court to consolidate their cases into three groups for joint…
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Court case · Texas Supreme Court · June 8, 2007 · in the opinion
Borg-Warner Corporation v. Flores (2007)
…Eastman Chemical Company, Exxon Mobil Corporation, The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Owens Illinois, Inc., and Union Carbide Corporation submitted amicus briefs. \[11\] We note initially that Borg-Warner did not challenge, either before trial or…
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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 · 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.…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · December 6, 2016 · in the opinion
Ney v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (2016)
…of Common Pleas for Philadelphia County against ACL, Crown, Cork & Seal Company, Inc., individually and as successor to Mundet Cork Corporation, Owens-Illinois, Inc., and Union Carbide Corporation (collectively, the "defendants"). Plaintiff, Loretta Ney, now deceased…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Short fiber tremolite free chrysotile mesothelioma cohort revealed
In 1995, Dell and Teta published a cohort mortality study of asbestos molding compound workers at a Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) plastics manufacturing plant in Bound Brook, New Jersey. They reported that the factory workers were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Re: Controlled use of asbestos
…authors argued that controlled use was the latest in a series of corporate misrepresentations of asbestos risk. They examined Union Carbide Corporation's (UCC) claims that Calidria, a chrysotile mined from the Coalinga deposit in California…