8 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana · February 12, 2025
Alford v. Taylor-Seidenbach, Inc. (2025)
The court granted Union Carbide's partial summary judgment motion on the failure-to-properly-package claim, denied it as moot on the conceded take-home and lost-earnings claims, and denied it on the Super…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 30, 2023
Ragusa v. Louisiana Guaranty Insurance Association (2023)
Frank Ragusa, Jr. sued numerous companies in Louisiana state court in 2021 over asbestos exposure, alleging negligence and intentional torts; Avondale removed the case to federal court. Ragusa has mesothelioma. The opinion mentions his exposure to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 31, 2023
Ragusa v. Louisiana Guaranty Insurance Association (2023)
Frank Ragusa, Jr. sued several companies after developing mesothelioma. He worked as a crane operator for B&G Crane Services from 1989 to 2017 at plants and refineries owned by the defendants. He alleged exposure to asbestos from friction materials…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · August 20, 2015
Oddo v. Asbestos Corporation Ltd. (2015)
…affirmed Ford's liability, reallocated fault to Ford 65%, Union Carbide 25% and Higgins 10%, and amended the survival damages award against Ford, so the plaintiffs lost against Southern Talc but kept their judgment against Ford…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · August 28, 2018 · in the opinion
Michel v. Ford Motor Company (2018)
…McMillan, McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Defendant, represented by Jay Morton Jalenak, Jr., Kean Miller & Patrick Dale Roquemore, Kean Miller. Union Carbide Coporation, Defendant, represented by McGready Lewis Richeson, Pugh, Accardo, Haas, Radecker & Carey…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 22, 2023 · in the opinion
Ragusa v. Louisiana Guaranty Insurance Association (2023)
…procedure further illustrates that Avondale controlled both Mr. Ragusa's work and the overall treatment of asbestos on its property. This case is similar to Smith v. Union Carbide, 2014 WL 4930457, at [\7] (E.D…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 7, 2019 · in the opinion
Michel v. Ford Motor Company (2019)
…as close as possible based on the information available, a technique that other courts on the Eastern District have endorsed for exposure reconstruction assessments. See Smith v. Union Carbide Corp., No. 13-6323, 2015 WL 575315…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 21, 2020 · in the opinion
Michel v. Ford Motor Company (2020)
…455 So. 2d 1364, 1369 (La. 1984); and Walker v. Union Oil Mill, Inc., 369 So.2d 1043, 1047 (La.1979)). Moreover, "\[i\]n determining an owner's liability under Civil Code Articles 2315 and 2316…