179 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 9
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · May 3, 2005
Benjamin v. Union Carbide Corporation (2005)
Affirmed summary judgment for Union Carbide and Georgia Pacific on the survival action as time-barred, but reversed it on the wrongful death action and remanded, so Elsie Benjamin may continue that claim. In a survival…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · September 30, 2019
Dugger v. Union Carbide Corporation (2019)
John Dugger, Jr., for himself and as personal representative of the estate of John Dugger, Sr., sued Honeywell International, successor to Bendix, along with other family members. They claimed Mr. Dugger developed pleural mesothelioma, which caused…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · June 18, 2013
Strickland v. Union Carbide Corp. (2013)
The Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment for Strickland's widow and children against Union Carbide, holding substantial evidence supported the jury's finding that exposure to Calidria contributed to his risk of peritoneal mesothelioma. Under…
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Court case · Georgia Court of Appeals · June 25, 2021
Union Carbide Corp. v. Brannan (2021)
The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court's denial of Union Carbide's motion to dismiss, so Louise Brannan's personal injury claims for her late husband's estate could proceed in the second…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · July 27, 2016
Font v. Union Carbide Corp. (2016)
On remand from the Florida Supreme Court, the Third District reversed the judgment for Union Carbide after a jury verdict and remanded Count II (strict liability) for a new trial, because the trial court refused Font…
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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 · Maryland Court of Appeals · August 2, 2006
Georgia-Pacific Corporation v. Benjamin (2006)
The Court of Appeals of Maryland affirmed the intermediate appellate court: the survival action against Georgia-Pacific and Union Carbide was time-barred, but summary judgment for the defendants on the wrongful death action was error…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 4, 2016
Bourke v. Exxon Mobil Corporation (2016)
Julius David Bourke sued Exxon Mobil, Georgia-Pacific, Union Carbide, Taylor-Seidenbach and Eagle in a New Orleans state court. He alleged asbestos exposure causing malignant mesothelioma. He said he was exposed as a child through…
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Court case · Delaware Superior Court · December 11, 2017
In re Asbestos Litigation Sturgill v. 3M Company, Inc. (2017)
The court granted Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment against plaintiffs Larry and Jill Sturgill because the record did not show Mr. Sturgill was exposed to Union Carbide's asbestos in the joint compounds…
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit · August 23, 2018
Waite v. Aii Acquisition Corp. (2018)
…Union Carbide for lack of personal jurisdiction, ruling against the Waites. In the Eleventh Circuit, specific jurisdiction requires that the defendant's forum contacts be a but-for cause of the claimed tort, and a corporation…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 13, 2023
King v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. (2023)
The court granted Union Carbide's unopposed motion for summary judgment and dismissed plaintiff Glen King's claims against it, because he could not link any asbestos exposure to a Union Carbide product. Under Louisiana law…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida · July 11, 2016
Waite v. Aii Acquisition Corp. (2016)
…while barring untimely expert analysis), and denied Plaintiffs' motion to reconsider the dismissal of Union Carbide for lack of personal jurisdiction. Where the medical community accepts that asbestos causes mesothelioma, the court need not conduct an…
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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 · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · July 6, 2018
Lloyd E. Mitchell, Inc. v. Rossello (2018)
…Workers' Compensation; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: Union Trust Bank branch, 210 Guilford Avenue; Union Trust Bank branch, 210 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore; Rossello's home basement bank management trainee Union Trust Bank branch, 210 Guilford Avenue…
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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 · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · June 29, 2012
Dixon v. Ford Motor Company (2012)
…cleaned up joint compound during several home construction projects. The plaintiffs settled with Georgia-Pacific, Honeywell and Union Carbide. A jury awarded $15,000,000 against Ford, which the trial court reduced to $6,065,000…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida · June 24, 2015
Taylor v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (2015)
Roy L. Taylor and his wife Suzanne sued Georgia-Pacific, Union Carbide, Imperial Industries and Premix-Marbletite in Florida state court in Miami-Dade County in August 2014. Mr. Taylor has pleural mesothelioma, and the state…
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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…