7 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Court case · Tennessee Supreme Court · August 13, 2013
Lively EX rel. Lively v. Union Carbide Corporation (2013)
…recovered only funeral expenses from Union Carbide because the 1982 date of injury capped her benefits below her husband's $90,000 settlement. When an employee is incapacitated from work by an occupational disease and later…
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Court case · Tennessee Supreme Court · September 8, 2011
Kelley v. Union Carbide Corporation (2011)
…the employee's settlement. Statute of Limitations; Employer and Contractor Liability, and Workers' Compensation; Compensatory Damages; Wrongful Death and Survival; Settlements and Releases Worksites: Union Carbide Corporation employee of Union Carbide Union Carbide Corporation 1952-1985
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Court case · Tennessee Supreme Court · December 10, 2015
Segroves v. Union Carbide (2015)
…Court (through its Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel) reversed the trial court's summary judgment for employer Union Carbide and Martin Marietta Energy System and remanded the employee Jimmy Segroves's asbestosis claim for further proceedings.…
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Court case · Tennessee Court of Appeals · March 13, 2008
Woody v. AW Chesterton Company (2008)
Wayne Woody, an insulator, and his wife Rebecca sued dozens of companies after he was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma in 2006; he died shortly after the suit was filed. In 1979 the Woodys had sued 25 companies over his asbestosis and settled in…
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Court case · Tennessee Court of Appeals · January 4, 1993
Denton v. Southern Ry. Co. (1993)
…cancer-monitoring costs, with federal law governing the measure of damages. Causation; Successor Liability; Compensatory Damages; FELA Railroad Claims; Fear of Cancer and Medical Monitoring; Trial Procedure and Discovery pipefitter 1937-1953; employee of Union Carbide
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Court case · Tennessee Supreme Court · March 1, 2001
Mackie v. Young Sales Corp. (2001)
…the maximum weekly rate, against Young Sales Corporation. An employee's voluntary retirement does not preclude workers' compensation benefits for an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of employment, and benefits may be…
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Court case · Tennessee Court of Appeals · May 16, 2014 · in the opinion
Blackmon v. Illinois Central Railroad Company (2014)
…or compromise of a FELA claim, and what constitutes an impermissible exemption from FELA liability; these unanswered questions have led to a divergence in federal courts. Daniels v. Union Pacific R.R. Co., 388 Ill. App…