8 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · November 21, 2014
Izell v. Union Carbide Corporation (2014)
The Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment for Bobbie and Helen Izell against Union Carbide, upholding the liability finding, the fault allocation, the remitted $6 million compensatory award and the $18 million punitive award. A plaintiff…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · October 22, 2014
Izell v. Union Carbide Corporation (2014)
The Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment for Bobbie and Helen Izell against Union Carbide, including the remitted $6 million compensatory award and the $18 million punitive award; one justice dissented in part on the punitive…
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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 · California Supreme Court · May 23, 2016 · in the opinion
Webb v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2016)
…com. n, pp. 309-310; Aubin v. Union Carbide Corp., supra, 177 So.3d at p. 515.) It is also significant if, under the circumstances giving rise to the plaintiff's claim, the intermediary itself had…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 10, 2013 · in the opinion
Webb v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2013)
…The raw asbestos supplied by Special Electric to Johns-Manville constitutes a "product" under the negligence and strict liability provisions of California law. (Stewart v. Union Carbide Corp. (2010) 190 Cal.App.4th 23, 29 (Stewart)…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · December 21, 2016 · in the opinion
Baeza v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2016)
…warnings, safety requirements, and union strike activities—were relevant to the jury's evaluation of plaintiffs' design defect claim. The court overruled Farrise's objection. The court stated that the jury had been properly instructed, further…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · February 10, 2015 · in the opinion
Green v. CertainTEED Corporation (2015)
…burden, the burden shifts to the plaintiff to show the existence of a triable issue of material fact as to that cause of action. (Union Bank v. Superior Court (1995) 31 Cal.App.4th 573, 583…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 15, 2019 · in the opinion
Burch v. Certainteed Corporation (2019)
…they were judicially construed in 1986 to apply to strict product liability cases\].) To the extent ambiguity exists, Proposition 51's ballot materials also aid our construction. (See Amador Valley Joint Union High Sch. Dist. v…