28 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 2
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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 · Texas Court of Appeals · December 19, 2019
Union Carbide Corporation v. Torres (2019)
The court affirmed the judgment for Oscar and Dora Torres against Union Carbide Corporation, but reversed the judgment against Garlock's successor GST Settlement Facility and rendered a take-nothing judgment for Garlock. A premises owner…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · May 8, 2013 · in the opinion
Francis v. Union Carbide Corporation (2013)
RENDON JOSEPH FRANCIS, v. UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION, ET AL. No. 2012-CA-1397. May 8, 2013. Court of Appeals of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit. Mickey P. Landry, Frank J. Swarr, David R. Cannella, Philip C. Hoffman, LANDRY…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · April 25, 2022 · in the opinion
Sentilles v. Huntington Ingalls Inc. (2022)
…Pugh, Accardo, Haas, Radecker & Carey, New Orleans, LA, Kathleen Jordan Brien, McGlinchey Stafford, Houston, TX, for Union Carbide Corporation, Bayer Crop-Science, Inc. Christopher Kelly Lightfoot, Edward J. Lassus, Jr., Gabriel J. Veninata, Hailey, McNamara, Hall…
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Court case · Kentucky Supreme Court · December 16, 2010 · in the opinion
Certainteed Corporation v. Dexter (2010)
…Corp.; Motion Industries, Inc.; Southern Manufacturing, Inc.; Triangle Insulation and Sheetmetal Co.; Union Carbide Corp.; and Westinghouse Electric Corp. \[2\] These additional defendants were: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.; Arkema, Inc.; CC Metals and Alloys, LLC…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 18, 2021 · in the opinion
Phipps v. Copeland Corporation LLC (2021)
…Asbestos Cases (2020) 44 Cal.App.5th 475, 488; see Izell v. Union Carbide Corp. (2014) 231 Cal.App.4th 962, 975 (Izell) \["As our Supreme Court explained in Rutherford, \\[t\]he substantial factor standard is…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · August 29, 2016 · in the opinion
Malone v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2016)
…the learned intermediary doctrine. For the learned intermediary doctrine to apply, CBS must provide evidence that it provided the "learned intermediary," or the third party purchaser, with information or warning. Union Carbide Corp. v. Nix, Jr.…
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Asbestos type
Amosite: Brown Asbestos and the US Navy
…Union Carbide Corp Asbestos-modified thermoplastic polyhydroxyethers (US Patent 3,396,139, 1968), Union Carbide Corp Insulating and refractory composition and elements for the lining of metal casting molds incorporating such compositions (US Patent 3,405…
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Asbestos type
Anthophyllite Asbestos: The Fiber That Started It
…modified thermoplastic polyhydroxyethers (US Patent 3,396,139, 1968), Union Carbide Corp Phosphoric acid bonded asbestos fiber sheets and method of manufacture (US Patent 3,383,230, 1968), Johns Manville Removal of surface active agents from…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · April 22, 2022 · in the opinion
Sentilles v. Huntington Ingalls Inc. (2022)
…Doc. 123. \[2\] R. Docs. 156; 161. Defendants Union Carbide Corp. ("Union Carbide") and Bayer CropScience, Inc., as successor to Rhone-Poulenc AG Co. f/k/a Amchem Products, Inc., f/k/a Benjamin Foster Company…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maine · September 16, 2020 · in the opinion
Coffin v. Ametek, Inc. (2020)
…any individualized analysis of his level of asbestos exposure"). \[7\] Some courts have also rejected a distinction between the "each and every" exposure and "cumulative" exposure theories. See Rockman v. Union Carbide Corp., 266 F. Supp…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Idaho · October 1, 2018
Stephens v. Union Pacific Railroad Company (2018)
The court denied Union Pacific's motion for judgment on the pleadings because it had waived its preemption defense, but granted Union Pacific summary judgment because the Stephenses lacked evidence of exposure and causation, and denied…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · August 28, 2019
Stephens v. Union Pacific R. Co. (2019)
The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for Union Pacific Railroad and against William and Norma Stephens, because Stephens did not show that exposure attributable to Union Pacific was a substantial factor in causing his mesothelioma. Under…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Mineral phases and some reexamined characteristics of the International Union Against Cancer standard asbestos samples
Standard asbestos samples to be used for biomedical research were first prepared by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) in 1966 in the United Kingdom and South Africa. Using modern techniques, X-ray diffractometry, analytical transmission…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · May 19, 1994
Hartman v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (1994)
… Fault, Apportionment and Settlement Credits; Loss of Consortium; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: Union Electric — Labadie plant; Union Electric — Meramec plant; Washington University Research Center; Labadie Power House; Meramec Power House electrician Labadie Power House 1969…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · December 19, 2019
Daniels v. ArvinMeritor, Inc. (2019)
…not appear on the verdict form. Causation; Expert Testimony; Failure to Warn; Fault, Apportionment and Settlement Credits; Trial Procedure and Discovery; Settlements and Releases Worksites: Chicago union pipefitter Chicago 1957-1998; union pipefitter Chicago 1957-1998
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Free radical activity of natural and heat treated amphibole asbestos
This was a laboratory study of two amphibole asbestos minerals, amosite and crocidolite, using standard reference samples from the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC). No people, animals or cells were studied. The authors calcined (heated…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Kinetics of deposition and clearance of inhaled mineral dusts during chronic exposure
New inhalation studies have been carried out with rats exposed to UICC (Union International Contre le Cancer) amosite asbestos, with the main aim of further elucidating the factors the influence the accumulation of dust in the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Nitric oxide (NO) synthase activity in the lung and NO synthesis in alveolar macrophages of rats increased on exposure to asbestos
We examined whether the lung of rats induced nitric oxide synthase (NOS) on instillation of Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) asbestos into the trachea, and whether alveolar macrophages (M phi s) of rats increased synthesis…