8,220 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 20 of 411
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Excerpt from Union Carbide Asbestos Regulatory Outlook on AIA/NA Legal Fund, Key Assumptions and Foreign Regulation (undated)
Five pages (numbered 10-14) from an undated Union Carbide planning document on the asbestos regulatory outlook. They discuss the AIA/NA's hiring of Kirkland & Ellis and its increased dues, expected OSHA, EPA and foreign…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · April 3, 1974
W. C. Thurber to J. L. Myers on Estimating Union Carbide's Share of Future Asbestos Markets by 1980 (1974)
…Myers at Niagara Falls, New York. It asks Myers and his staff to estimate the share of the asbestos markets Union Carbide could expect to hold by 1980, once G. Welh's report on the size…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 22, 1971
Union Carbide Call Report on Chevron Asphalt (Emeryville, Calif.) Interest in Calidria Asbestos (1971)
A Union Carbide call report dated 2/22/71 on an interview with W. J. Kari, Tech. Coordinator West, of Chevron Asphalt in Emeryville, California. The stated objective was to determine the potential for Calidria asbestos…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Union Carbide Indemnity Provision for De Gussa Against Claims of Infringement of German Patent 1,567,517 on Asbestos Products (undated)
…of German Patent 1,567,517 arising from De Gussa's sale of asbestos products bought from Union Carbide. The indemnity is conditioned on prompt written notice, cooperation and no settlement without Union Carbide's consent…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Union Carbide CALIDRIA Asbestos Product Brochure: High Purity Chrysotile from New Idria, Wet-Processing, Grades and Applications (undated)
Eight-page Union Carbide sales brochure for CALIDRIA Asbestos, a chrysotile from the New Idria deposit in California. It describes the wet-processing method and compares fiber structure with Canadian chrysotile. It also covers viscosity-control…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Union Carbide Slide Presentation on Cancer Perceptions and Asbestos Regulation by OSHA, EPA, CPSC and the States (undated)
A set of numbered presentation slides. The first slides cover public perceptions of cancer and "medical and regulatory cliches" about carcinogens. The remaining slides outline the status and expected direction of asbestos regulation (OSHA, EPA,…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 17, 1971
Union Carbide Indemnity Clause for De Gussa on German Patent 1,567,517, with J. W. Mares Note to Law Files on the Degussa Asbestos Contract (1971)
…Indemnity Clause re De Gussa', stamped received Feb 17, 1971 Draft indemnity clause: Union Carbide to indemnify De Gussa against claims on German Patent 1,567,517 Handwritten routing slip from Jan W. Mares, 46th Floor…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 25, 1983
Asbestos Reprints Circulated Within Union Carbide: AIA Medical Advisory Panel Diagnostic Criteria and Lewinsohn on Medical Surveillance, with Johnkoski and Rankin Transmittal Memos (1983)
Compilation of two Union Carbide transmittal memos (February 1983) and two attached published reprints. The reprints are the Asbestos International Association Medical Advisory Panel's 1982 criteria for diagnosing asbestosis, with notes on mesothelioma and lung…
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Court case · Louisiana Supreme Court · January 12, 2021
Bagwell v. Union Carbide Corp. (2021)
…25% on CAPCO, none on Union Carbide or Montello), and so favored the defendants Union Carbide and Montello over the plaintiffs. A jury verdict must be read as a whole, and answers to interrogatories are not…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · October 22, 2014
Izell v. Union Carbide Corp. (2014)
The Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment for Bobbie and Helen Izell against Union Carbide, upholding the jury's liability and comparative-fault findings, the compensatory award as reduced to $6 million, and the $18 million…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · June 22, 2017
Rockman v. Union Carbide Corp. (2017)
The court granted five unopposed partial summary judgment motions for Union Carbide and Georgia-Pacific, ending the kidney cancer, breach of warranty, fraud, conspiracy, market share liability, aiding and abetting and punitive damages claims; strict liability…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · July 17, 2017
Rockman v. Union Carbide Corp. (2017)
The court excluded the plaintiffs' experts' specific causation and "each and every exposure" opinions and granted summary judgment to Union Carbide and Georgia-Pacific on the Rockmans' remaining strict liability, negligence and loss of consortium claims…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · July 18, 2019
McMaster v. Union Carbide Corp. (2019)
The appeals court granted the writ of Union Carbide and Montello and modified the trial court's denial of their motion to quash, so that plaintiff McMaster must identify specific topics for the corporate witnesses, while…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · October 28, 2015
Marteney v. Union Carbide Corp. (2015)
The Court of Appeal affirmed the denial of Union Carbide's and Elementis's motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, leaving the strict-liability judgment for Marie Marteney in place. Under Rutherford, a plaintiff shows causation…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · December 17, 2007
Slaughter v. Union Carbide Corp. (2007)
Ronald and Edna Slaughter sued 39 manufacturers and distributors of asbestos-containing products in Los Angeles County. Edna had been diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2006 and died in December of that year. They alleged she was exposed while they…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 1, 2014
Smith v. Union Carbide Corp. (2014)
…Union Carbide Taft facility; Dow Chemical Plaquemine plant; Ethyl Corporation Baton Rouge plant; Union Carbide's Taft facility, Taft; Ethyl's Baton Rouge facility, Baton Rouge; Dow Chemical's Plaquemine facility, Plaquemine pipe insulator Union Carbide…
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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 · 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 · Tennessee Supreme Court · December 10, 2015
Segroves v. Union Carbide (2015)
…Court (through its Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel) reversed the trial court's summary judgment for employer Union Carbide and Martin Marietta Energy System and remanded the employee Jimmy Segroves's asbestosis claim for further proceedings.…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents
Union Carbide Asbestos Product Information Bulletin: High-Purity Asbestos as a Filler and Retention Aid for Printing Papers, with Bond Paper Mill Trial Data
A two-page Asbestos Product Information Bulletin promoting Union Carbide high-purity asbestos as a white fibrous filler and retention aid for printing papers. The cover lists claimed benefits (sheet formation, TiO2 and dye retention, opacity…