9 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · November 29, 2007
Bakkie v. Union Carbide Corporation (2007)
The Court of Appeal affirmed the jury's liability findings against Union Carbide and the denial of its JNOV motion, but reversed the $14.1 million future noneconomic damages award as excessive and ordered a new…
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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 · 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 · California Court of Appeal · February 2, 2017 · in the opinion
Johnson v. ArvinMeritor, Inc. (2017)
…evidence of exposure in asbestos personal injury cases. Particularly instructive is Izell v. Union Carbide Corp. (2014) 231 Cal.App.4th 962 \[180 Cal.Rptr.3d 382\] (Izell). The plaintiff ran a construction company from 1964…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 22, 2024 · in the opinion
Williams v. JM Manufacturing Company, Inc. (2024)
…was exposed to asbestos from asbestos-cement pipe supplied by J-MM. Relying on Izell v. Union Carbide Corp. (2014) 231 Cal.App.4th 962 (Izell), J-MM contends that Cornelius only raised a "mere possibility…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · July 15, 2015 · in the opinion
Soto v. BorgWarner Morse Tec Inc. (2015)
…the record contains evidence sufficient to support the judgment. It is the appellant's affirmative burden to demonstrate otherwise." (Stewart v. Union Carbide Corp. (2010) 190 Cal.App.4th 23, 33 \[117 Cal.Rptr.3d 791…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · October 30, 2019 · in the opinion
Lopez v. the Hillshire Brands Company (2019)
…sources of plaintiff's injury." (Id. at pp. 1416-1417.) We review a jury's causation finding for substantial evidence. (Izell v. Union Carbide Corp. (2014) 231 Cal.App.4th 962, 969; Jones v. John Crane…
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Court case · California Supreme Court · December 1, 2016 · in the opinion
Kesner v. Superior Court and Haver (2016)
…by recommendations from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and from an Advisory Committee on Asbestos Standards composed of two employer and two labor representatives, plus a representative of the public (Industrial Union, supra…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · February 25, 2020 · in the opinion
Textron, Inc. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Company (2020)
…the discussion in Montrose demonstrates, at the time of the Rhode Island ruling in 1991, one California appellate decision had adopted a "continuous occurrence" theory for continuing property damage. (California Union Ins. Co. v. Landmark Ins…