27 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · August 22, 2012
Union Carbide Corporation v. Aubin (2012)
The appeals court reversed the denial of Union Carbide's directed verdict on Aubin's design defect claim, affirmed denial of a directed verdict on the warning defect claim, and remanded for a new trial on…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · June 20, 2012
Union Carbide Corporation v. Aubin (2012)
The appeals court reversed the denial of Union Carbide's directed verdict on Aubin's design defect claim, affirmed the denial of a directed verdict on his warning defect claim, and remanded for a new trial…
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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 · Florida Supreme Court · October 29, 2015
Aubin v. Union Carbide Corporation (2015)
…Court quashed the Third District's reversal and ordered the jury verdict and judgment for William Aubin against Union Carbide reinstated. Florida keeps the consumer expectations test from the Second Restatement for strict liability design defect…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · September 6, 2006
Fernandez v. Union Carbide Corp. (2006)
The Third District Court of Appeal affirmed the final judgment entered on a jury verdict for Union Carbide Corporation, rejecting the plaintiff's challenges to the trial court's evidentiary rulings. A trial court acts within…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · July 27, 2016
Font v. Union Carbide Corp. (2016)
On remand from the Florida Supreme Court, the Third District reversed the judgment for Union Carbide after a jury verdict and remanded Count II (strict liability) for a new trial, because the trial court refused Font…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit · August 23, 2018
Waite v. Aii Acquisition Corp. (2018)
…Union Carbide for lack of personal jurisdiction, ruling against the Waites. In the Eleventh Circuit, specific jurisdiction requires that the defendant's forum contacts be a but-for cause of the claimed tort, and a corporation…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida · August 1, 2014
Rothchild v. Crane Co. (2014)
The court granted Union Carbide's motion to dismiss the amended complaint as to Union Carbide only, without prejudice, and gave the Rothchilds 30 days to amend with more specific allegations. A complaint must plead factual…
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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, Southern District of Florida · July 11, 2016
Waite v. Aii Acquisition Corp. (2016)
…while barring untimely expert analysis), and denied Plaintiffs' motion to reconsider the dismissal of Union Carbide for lack of personal jurisdiction. Where the medical community accepts that asbestos causes mesothelioma, the court need not conduct an…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida · June 24, 2015
Taylor v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (2015)
Roy L. Taylor and his wife Suzanne sued Georgia-Pacific, Union Carbide, Imperial Industries and Premix-Marbletite in Florida state court in Miami-Dade County in August 2014. Mr. Taylor has pleural mesothelioma, and the state…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida · August 1, 2014
Rothchild v. Crane Co. (2014)
Herbert Rothchild and his wife Audrey sued Crane Co., Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation, Lorillard Tobacco Company, Owens-Illinois and Union Carbide in federal court in southern Florida. The amended complaint alleges that Mr. Rothchild contracted mesothelioma…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · February 22, 2017 · in the opinion
Kelly v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (2017)
…West Palm Beach, for appellee Union Carbide Corporation. [\342] Levine, J. The question presented for our review is whether the Florida Wrongful Death Act supersedes the common law requirement that a spouse must be married to…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · October 24, 2012 · in the opinion
Rich v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc. (2012)
…Morande of Carlton Fields, P.A., West Palm Beach, for Appellee-Union Carbide Corporation. ROBIN L. ROSENBERG, Associate Judge. Abbey Rich, both in her individual capacity and as the personal representative of her late husband's…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · June 20, 2018 · in the opinion
Bechtel Corporation v. Batchelor (2018)
…Bennett Auto Supply, Ford Motor Company, Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation, General Electric Company, Genuine Parts Company, Gould Pumps, Inc., Honeywell International, Inc., Union Carbide Corporation, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, FPL, and Bechtel.\[1\] The complaint gives a…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · December 27, 2017 · in the opinion
Bechtel Corporation v. Batchelor (2017)
…Bennett Auto Supply, Ford Motor Company, Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation, General Electric Company, Genuine Parts Company, Gould Pumps, Inc., Honeywell International, Inc., Union Carbide Corporation, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, FPL, and Bechtel.\[1\] The complaint gives a…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida · August 2, 2012 · in the opinion
Faddish v. Buffalo Pumps (2012)
…See e.g. McConnell v. Union Carbide Corp., 937 So.2d 148 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006)(carpenter who contracted asbestosis from inhalation of asbestos fibers during use of joint compound incorporating processed asbestos was entitled to…
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State law · Florida
Florida Mesothelioma Lawyer: Asbestos Claims, Deadlines & Compensation
…Spiewak, 73 So. 3d 120 (Fla. 2011): ch. 774 impairment rule not applied to claims accrued before the act. Aubin v. Union Carbide Corp., 177 So. 3d 489 (Fla. 2015): consumer-expectations test; Restatement (Second); mesothelioma…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida · March 29, 2016 · in the opinion
Dugas v. 3M Company (2016)
…present evidence that a reasonable alternative design existed and argue whether the benefit of the product's design outweighed any risks of injury or death caused by the design." Aubin v. Union Carbide Corp., 177 So…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida · September 25, 2018 · in the opinion
Doolin v. Ford Motor Company (2018)
…unquantified (and potentially infinitesimal) increase in risk could serve as proof that a defendant's product was a substantial cause of a plaintiff's or decedent's disease."); Rockman v. Union Carbide Corp., 266 F. Supp…