95 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 5
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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 · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 11, 2019
Bagwell v. Union Carbide Corporation (2019)
The appeals court affirmed the jury's finding that Union Carbide and Montello were not at fault and the trial court's evidence and instruction rulings, but raised the survival-action general damages against RMC Holdings…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · January 10, 2018
Sawyer v. Union Carbide Corporation (2018)
The estate, widow and children of Joseph Morris sued Foster Wheeler and many other companies in Baltimore City Circuit Court. They said Morris died of mesothelioma, diagnosed in December 2014, after asbestos exposure while working as a riveter…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · June 22, 2011
Bozeman v. Union Carbide Corporation (2011)
Jerry Bozeman worked as a Shreveport firefighter from 1965 to 1998, mostly at Fire Station No. 8, built in the 1920s. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2004 and died in 2005. His sons sued the City as his employer, along with several…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · April 20, 2016
Sawyer v. Union Carbide Corporation (2016)
The estate, widow and children of Joseph Morris sued Foster Wheeler and other defendants in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Morris was diagnosed with mesothelioma in December 2014 and died in March 2015. The plaintiffs alleged he was exposed to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · April 29, 2019
Sawyer v. Union Carbide Corporation (2019)
Janya Sawyer, representing the estate of Joseph Morris, and Morris's surviving children sued Foster Wheeler and other defendants. Morris was diagnosed with asbestos-related mesothelioma in December 2014 and died in March 2015. The plaintiffs alleged…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · June 12, 2023
Finello v. Foster Wheeler LLC (2023)
…denied Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment, so the Broderick estates' claims against it go forward. Under Pennsylvania's frequency, regularity and proximity test, evidence of exposure to Kentile tiles that contained Union Carbide…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · January 19, 2017
Evans v. CBS Corp. (2017)
The district court adopted the magistrate judge's recommendation and granted the unopposed summary judgment motions of CBS, Crane, Union Carbide, Ingersoll Rand, FMC, McNally and Western Auto Supply against plaintiffs Icom and Johanna Evans. Under…
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Court case · Georgia Court of Appeals · March 30, 2015
Scapa Dryer Fabrics, Inc. v. Knight (2015)
Roy Knight and his wife Milva sued Scapa Dryer Fabrics and Union Carbide after Roy was diagnosed in 2009 with malignant mesothelioma. They said he was exposed to airborne asbestos while working as an independent sheet…
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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 · Georgia Supreme Court · July 5, 2016
Scapa Dryer Fabrics, Inc. v. Knight (2016)
Roy Knight, a sheet-metal worker, developed mesothelioma almost forty years after working as an independent contractor at Scapa Dryer Fabrics' Waycross, Georgia plant between 1967 and 1973. He and his wife sued Scapa, claiming it negligently exposed…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 20, 2006 · in the opinion
Chaisson v. Avondale Industries, Inc. (2006)
…Zachry contract with Union Carbide was a construction contract, the trial court's usurpation of the jury's role was wholly improper." Mr. Griffin testified about a "construction contract" between Zachry and Union Carbide dated June…
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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 · 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 · 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…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · September 30, 2010 · in the opinion
Peter & Elpis Constantinides v. CBS Corporation (2010)
…Tampa Drug Co. v. Wait, 103 So. 2d 603 (Fla. 1958); McConnell v. Union Carbide Corporation, 937 So. 2d 148 (Fl. Dist. App. Ct. 2006). Under the Second Restatement's approach, whether a sophisticated purchaser discharges…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · October 8, 2010 · in the opinion
Peter & Elpis Constantinides v. CBS Corporation (2010)
…Tampa Drug Co. v. Wait, 103 So. 2d 603 (Fla. 1958); McConnell v. Union Carbide Corporation, 937 So. 2d 148 (Fl. Dist. App. Ct. 2006). Under the Second Restatement's approach, whether a sophisticated purchaser discharges…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island · March 16, 2017 · in the opinion
Stevens v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2017)
…Nelson, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP. The Falk Corporation, Cross Defendant, represented by Kathryn T.R. O'Brien, Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C. & Theodorus D. Urbanski, Melick & Porter, LLP. Union Carbide Corporation, Cross Defendant, represented by…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of California · February 16, 2016 · in the opinion
Walashek v. Air Liquid Systems Corporation (2016)
…Union Carbide Corporation, 231 Cal. App. 4th 962 (2014), Union Carbide argued that the testimony of plaintiff's expert that "\[a\]ll of the asbestos together contributes to cause mesothelioma," cannot be squared with Rutherford's…
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Court case · Texas Supreme Court · July 11, 2014 · in the opinion
Bostic v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. (2014)
…Baker Botts LLP, Sharla J. Frost, Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, Houston, TX, for Amicus Curiae Union Carbide Corporation. Karen K. Maston, Johnson Spalding Doyle West & Trent, Houston, TX, for Other interested party Amtek, Inc.…