109 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 6
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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 · Washington Court of Appeals · November 4, 2008
Taylor v. Union Carbide Corporation (2008)
The Court of Appeals reversed the summary judgment granted to Union Carbide and remanded for trial, ruling for David Taylor and his wife. A plaintiff may use circumstantial evidence to show exposure to a defendant's…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · September 9, 2021
Murphy v. Union Carbide Corporation (2021)
Robert Murphy was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2019 and sued several companies in Baltimore City Circuit Court. He claimed his disease came from asbestos exposure while working at the Key Highway Shipyard in 1973 and 1974. He said he was exposed…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of California · April 5, 2024
Speck v. CBS Corporation (2024)
The court granted summary judgment to General Dynamics, Gould, Plenco, Union Carbide, Ericsson and RSCC Wire & Cable, and to Eaton on the fraud claims. It denied summary judgment to Bath Iron Works and Metalclad, rejected their…
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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 · 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 · Ohio Court of Appeals · March 22, 2012
Bier v. Am. Biltrite (2012)
The appeals court affirmed summary judgment for Union Carbide, ruling that Bier's estate had no evidence that the decedent was exposed to Union Carbide's Calidria asbestos. A plaintiff cannot defeat summary judgment against a…
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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 · Delaware Superior Court · September 28, 2020
Gibbs v. 84 Lumber Company (2020)
The court granted Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment on the Gibbses' design-defect and failure-to-warn claims. Under South Carolina law as applied by the court, a raw-material supplier of asbestos…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · July 25, 2016 · in the opinion
Arbogast v. AW Chesterton Co. (2016)
…ECF No. 502-7.) Moreover, both Arbogast and his coworker, Burnham, testified they could not identify the manufacturer of the material to which they referred as "Bakelite." (Def. Union Carbide Mot. Summ. J., Ex. C, Arbogast…
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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 Court of Appeals · March 22, 2010
Adamson v. General Elec. Co. (2010)
…Garlock, CBS/Westinghouse, General Electric and Union Carbide (no proof of exposure to their asbestos products), against the estate's executor. To survive summary judgment, a plaintiff must present evidence that the defendant's asbestos-containing…
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Court case · Rhode Island Superior Court · June 5, 2018
Turcotte v. 3M Company (2018)
Gerard Turcotte and his wife sued 3M Company and about 120 other defendants in Rhode Island Superior Court. They alleged he developed mesothelioma from asbestos-containing products, mostly through work as an electrician and through improvements to…
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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 · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · November 19, 2019
Mosher v. ABB (In re Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…Pfizer, Siemens, Union Carbide and Warren Pumps) against plaintiffs Kent and Cathy Mosher, who did not respond to the motions. Under maritime law and Colorado law, a plaintiff must show exposure to each defendant's asbestos…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · September 21, 2004
Jessop v. Acf Industries, LLC (2004)
Janet Jessop, a Kansas resident, sued several companies in Philadelphia, as administrator of her late husband's estate and in her own right. She alleged Harold Jessop died of mesothelioma from asbestos exposure during sixteen years as an electrician…
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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 · December 27, 2023
Servedio v. AO Smith Water Prods. Co. (2023)
…1950s to 1970s; plumber 1961 to 1990; plumber 1968 to 1986; union carpenter 1958 to 1995; union carpenter 1956 to 1990; union carpenter 1953 to 1995; 1955 to the mid 1970's; 1957 to 1979; 1955…