205 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 11
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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 · U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky · April 23, 2013
Holland v. Union Carbide Corporation (2013)
The court denied Union Carbide Corporation's motion for summary judgment based on the military contractor defense, so the plaintiff's claims against it continue. A defendant asserting the military contractor (government contractor) defense bears the…
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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 · Delaware Superior Court · August 15, 2019
Robinson v. Union Carbide Corporation (2019)
The Delaware Superior Court granted Union Carbide's motion for summary judgment against Marianne Robinson, ruling for Union Carbide on both the failure-to-warn claim and the Ohio strict liability claim. Under Ohio law, a…
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Court case · Georgia Court of Appeals · March 20, 2012
Union Carbide Corporation v. Fields (2012)
The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed the grant of partial summary judgment to the Fieldses on the defendants' nonparty-fault defense and affirmed the denial of Union Carbide's summary judgment motion, so the Fieldses won…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · June 25, 1982
Froud v. Celotex Corporation (1982)
Three asbestos workers, James Froud, John Friday and Wyatt Williamson, died after allegedly developing disease from prolonged exposure to asbestos products made and sold by the defendants. Froud and Friday had peritoneal mesothelioma; Williamson had…
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Court case · Tennessee Supreme Court · March 21, 1994
Ingram v. Aetna Cas. and Sur. Co. (1994)
…Liability, and Workers' Compensation; Fear of Cancer and Medical Monitoring Worksites: K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant; K-25 Plant, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge employee of Union Carbide K-25 Plant, Oak Ridge Oak Ridge 1973-1979
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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, Eastern District of Louisiana · December 15, 2014
Comardelle v. Pennsylvania General Insurance Company (2014)
The court denied Union Carbide's motion to exclude plaintiffs' pathology expert Dr. Hammar and for summary judgment on causation, so plaintiffs' claims against Union Carbide continued. A genuine issue of fact on exposure defeats summary…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · June 12, 2018
Brown v. Avondale Industries, Inc. (2018)
Gregory Brown sued Avondale Industries (now Huntington Ingalls) and many other companies in Louisiana state court. He has lung cancer, which he says came from asbestos exposure. He says he was exposed while working intermittently from 1967 to 1971…
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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 · Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals · June 7, 2012
Olsen v. Oklahoma Gas and Elec. Co. (2012)
Eloise Olsen sued Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. (OG&E) after her husband, Billy Olsen, died in November 2010 of pleural mesothelioma. In 1970 OG&E built an electric power plant, and Mr. Olsen worked for an insulation contractor hired by OG&E,…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 26, 2016
Sheppard v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (2016)
Jesse Frank Sheppard sued in Louisiana state court, alleging he was exposed to asbestos daily while working for Freeport Sulphur Company, now Mosaic's predecessor. He alleged this caused asbestos-related cancer, lung cancer, or mesothelioma, first…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · November 17, 2016
Sheppard v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (2016)
Jesse Frank Sheppard sued in Louisiana state court, and the case was removed to federal court. He alleged he was exposed to asbestos daily while working for Freeport Sulphur Company, now part of Mosaic Global Holdings, and that it caused…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 30, 2017
Sheppard v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (2017)
Jesse Frank Sheppard sued in Louisiana state court, and the case was removed to federal court. He alleged daily asbestos exposure while working for Freeport Sulphur Company, a predecessor of Mosaic, and said it caused asbestos-related cancer, lung…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 24, 2017
Sheppard v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (2017)
Jesse Frank Sheppard sued in Louisiana state court, alleging he worked in various positions for Freeport Sulphur Company, Mosaic's predecessor, and was exposed to asbestos daily. He said the exposure caused asbestos-related cancer, lung cancer,…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · February 2, 2017
Sheppard v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (2017)
Jesse Frank Sheppard sued his former employer, Freeport Sulphur Company (whose successor is Mosaic), along with makers and distributors of asbestos-containing products and related insurers. He alleged that daily asbestos exposure at work caused lung…