176 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 9
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 22, 2016
Bartolone v. Union Carbide Corp. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2016)
The court denied Union Carbide's motion for summary judgment in its entirety, so plaintiff's estate's claims against Union Carbide go forward to trial. A defendant cannot obtain summary judgment by pointing to gaps…
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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 · New York Supreme Court · March 22, 2013
Macek v. CBS Corporation (2013)
The court denied Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment in its entirety, so the plaintiffs' claims against it go forward. Conflicting testimony about whether the joint compound contained the defendant's Calidria asbestos, and…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · August 13, 2014
Armanious v. 3M Co. (2014)
The court denied Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment, so the plaintiff estate's claims against it continue, because a jury could infer that Mr. Nilsson was exposed to its Calidria asbestos through National…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · October 17, 2016
Jackson v. 84 Lumber Co. (2016)
The trial court granted some and denied or reserved most of the defendants' (Union Carbide, Crane, Domco, Fairbanks) motions in limine, allowing plaintiff's state-of-the-art and specific-causation expert testimony and denying a…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 17, 2024
Silviano v. AO Smith Water Prods. Co. (2024)
The court granted the plaintiff's motion for a joint trial of the Last action with the Joyce action over the opposition of defendants Union Carbide, Mario & DiBono Plastering and Tishman Realty. Under the case management…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 6, 2014
Kestenbaum v. Durez Corp. (2014)
The court denied Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment, leaving the plaintiff's claims against it in place. Summary judgment is not available where the evidence leaves a triable question of fact; testimony that…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 10, 2013
Vega v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (2013)
The court denied Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment dismissing the plaintiff's complaint and cross-claims, leaving Glenda Vega's claims against it for trial. Whether a raw asbestos supplier's warnings to…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · August 13, 2013
Cisler v. AO Smith Water Products Co. (2013)
The trial court granted Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment and dismissed the plaintiffs' complaint and all cross-claims against it, while the case continued against the other defendants. A plaintiff opposing summary judgment…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · May 3, 2013
Liberman v. AO Smith Water Prods. Co. (2013)
The court granted Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment and dismissed the complaint and cross claims against it, because plaintiffs did not show Mr. Liberman was exposed to UCC's asbestos; the case continued…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 17, 2013
Logan v. AP Moller-Maersk, Inc. (2013)
The court denied Union Carbide's cross-motion for summary judgment in its entirety, so plaintiffs John and Gail Logan prevailed, and denied Georgia Pacific's motion as moot because plaintiffs had settled with it. In…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · August 8, 2012
Adler v. Air & Liquid Sys. Corp. (2012)
Twenty-two plaintiffs, all represented by the same lawyers, sued more than eighty defendants in New York County for asbestos-related injuries or deaths. Seven had lung cancer, fourteen had pleural mesothelioma, and Glenda Vega had peritoneal…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · April 14, 2020
Montell v. Kaiser Gypsum Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…and cross-claims against it, and denied the plaintiffs' cross-motion for jurisdictional discovery. A New York court lacks general jurisdiction over a corporation not incorporated or headquartered in New York, and lacks specific jurisdiction under…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 28, 2017
Klock v. Albany Intl. Corp. (2017)
Two men, William McIntosh and Leonard Gaumes, both developed mesothelioma. Both had worked at the Gouverneur Talc mine in overlapping years. McIntosh died in November 2015, and his estate, represented by Christine Klock, sued. Gaumes and his wife…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 17, 2020
Peterson v. Vanderbilt Mineral (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
Stanley Peterson, diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma in 2017, and his wife Debby sued Vanderbilt Mineral, LLC and others. They alleged he was exposed to asbestos in Vanderbilt's NYTAL talc while working part-time at his wife's ceramics…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 5, 2018
Matter of Adesso v. AO Smith Water Prods. Co. (2018)
…auto repair and laundering a husband's work clothes. Defendants including Foster Wheeler, Union Carbide and Cleaver-Brooks opposed. The judge applied the standard that joint trials need a plain identity of issues, looking at worksites…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 20, 2017
Altman v. Ford Motor Co. (In re New York City Asbetos Litigation, 2017)
…1950s-1980s; helper in boiler and furnace removal and installation stepfather's boiler and furnace business 1950s; worker at a construction products company 1970s; handyman 1970s and 1980s; union carpenter various construction sites 1960s to 1980s
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 24, 2020
Peterson v. Vanderbilt Minerals (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
Stanley Peterson and his wife Debby sued several companies in New York County, claiming his pleural mesothelioma, diagnosed in March 2017, came from asbestos in talc. He said that from 1980 to 2000 he worked part-time at his wife's ceramics business…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · May 19, 2021
Camiolo v. American Biltrite Inc. (2021)
Francesca Camiolo, as executrix of the estate of her husband Pietro Camiolo and individually, sued several companies after he died of mesothelioma. He had installed floor tiles during his career. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company asked the court…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · October 21, 2013
Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation v. AW Chesterton Co., Inc. (2013)
Seven plaintiffs, or their estates, brought asbestos injury suits in New York County. Six had mesothelioma and one, Perez, had lung cancer. Their cases were part of an "In Extremis" trial group, and they asked for a joint trial. Their alleged…