120 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · July 28, 2016
Hillyer v. ABB (In re Asbestos Litigation Hillyer, 2016)
…BW/IP, Eaton, Union Carbide and Gould against the Hillyers, who did not oppose the motions. Under maritime law, a plaintiff must show exposure to the defendant's own asbestos-containing product that was a substantial…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · June 26, 2016
Rublee v. Carrier Corp. (2016)
Vernon Rublee died of mesothelioma in 2015. He had worked as a machinist at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard from 1965 to 1980, where other workers mixed and applied asbestos-containing refractory products called Insulag and Panelag around the steam…
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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, Northern District of New York · February 18, 2014 · in the opinion
Crews v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2014)
…as North Brothers, Inc.; PNEUMO ABEX CORPORATION; ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORP.; SEQUOIA VENTURES, INC. also known as Bechtel Corporation; UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION; WARREN PUMPS, LLC; WEINMAN PUMP AND SUPPLY COMPANY; and YARWAY CORPORATION, Defendants. No. 7:12…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · June 26, 2017 · in the opinion
Rublee v. Carrier Corporation (2017)
…as successor in interest to PIONEER SAND & GRAVEL COMPANY; METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY; SABERHAGEN HOLDINGS, INC.; UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION; and WARREN PUMPS, LLC, individually and as successor in interest to QUIMBY PUMP COMPANY, Defendants, PFIZER, INC.…
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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.…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 28, 2022 · in the opinion
Wagner v. Aerco Intl., Inc. (2022)
…WARNER CORPORATION, MW CUSTOM PAPERS LLC, NASH ENGINEERING COMPANY, SPIRAX SARCO, INC., SPX COOLING TECHNOLOGIES, INC., STERLING FLUID SYSTEMS (USA) LLC, THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION, UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION, VELAN VALVE CORPORATION…
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Court case · Oregon Court of Appeals · April 22, 1998 · in the opinion
Purcell v. Asbestos Corp., Ltd. (1998)
…corporation, individually and as successor-in-interest to A.P. Green and E.J. Bartells; National Gypsum Company, a California corporation; Turner & Newall PLC, a British corporation and its subsidiary J.W. Roberts Limited; Union Carbide…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · July 3, 2008 · in the opinion
Gregory v. Beazer East (2008)
…Beazer), Bondex International (Bondex), Exxon Mobil (Mobil), Georgia-Pacific Corporation (Georgia-Pacific) and Union Carbide Corporation (Union Carbide), regarding her husband's contraction of mesothelioma and subsequent death. Mobil moved for summary judgment on various grounds…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · July 31, 2002 · in the opinion
Hebert v. Anco Insulation, Inc. (2002)
…Melancon, Associates Indemnity Corporation, the American Insurance Company, Travelers Casualty and Surety Company, Flexiallic, Inc., GAF Corporation, The McCarty Corporation, AC & S, Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, Rapid American Corporation T & N, Union Carbide Corporation, and Uniroyal, Inc…