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156 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 8
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Court case · Texas Supreme Court · July 3, 2014
Union Carbide Corporation v. Synatzske (2014)
…as applied, and rendered judgment dismissing the Emmites' wrongful death suit against Union Carbide. The Chapter 90 safety valve requires that pulmonary function testing be relevant to the physician's diagnosis of functional pulmonary impairment, so…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · June 30, 2011
Union Carbide Corporation v. Synatzske (2011)
The court of appeals affirmed the MDL pretrial court's order denying Union Carbide's motion and renewed motion to dismiss, ruling for the Emmites, though it found Dr. Prince's reports did not meet the…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · December 19, 2019
Union Carbide Corporation v. Torres (2019)
The court affirmed the judgment for Oscar and Dora Torres against Union Carbide Corporation, but reversed the judgment against Garlock's successor GST Settlement Facility and rendered a take-nothing judgment for Garlock. A premises owner…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · October 1, 2009
Union Carbide Corporation v. Smith (2009)
…judgment for Oliver and Peggy Smith and rendered a take-nothing judgment for Union Carbide and Hexion, holding there was no evidence of Union Carbide's control and that the workers' compensation exclusive remedy barred the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · February 11, 2015
Smith v. Union Carbide Corporation (2015)
The court denied plaintiff Miriam Smith's motion in limine to exclude Union Carbide's expert, industrial hygienist William Dyson, so he may testify about Mr. Smith's estimated asbestos dose. Dose reconstruction methodology was sufficiently…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · April 1, 2021
Lege v. Union Carbide Corporation (2021)
… about four months; insulator Cabot Corporation carbon black plant Centerville late 1978 or early 1979; helper and insulator Texaco plant late 1971 or early 1972 onward; insulator Union Carbide, DuPont and another Texaco plant 1975-1978
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 1, 2014
Smith v. Union Carbide Corp. (2014)
…Union Carbide Taft facility; Dow Chemical Plaquemine plant; Ethyl Corporation Baton Rouge plant; Union Carbide's Taft facility, Taft; Ethyl's Baton Rouge facility, Baton Rouge; Dow Chemical's Plaquemine facility, Plaquemine pipe insulator Union Carbide…
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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 · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · May 17, 2017
Fowler v. Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc. (2017)
The Appellate Division reversed the trial court's summary judgment for Union Carbide, finding enough evidence for a jury to infer Edenfield was exposed to Union Carbide's asbestos, and ruled for the plaintiff widow. In…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · May 24, 2017
Romano v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. (2017)
…Marrero; Union Carbide Taft facility; Union Carbide Corporation's Taft facility; Johns-Manville Corporation's plant, Marrero, Marrero stores department worker Union Carbide Corporation's Taft facility 1967-1968; nearby resident Johns-Manville Corporation's plant…
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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 · 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 · 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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 31, 2023
Ragusa v. Louisiana Guaranty Insurance Association (2023)
Frank Ragusa, Jr. sued several companies after developing mesothelioma. He worked as a crane operator for B&G Crane Services from 1989 to 2017 at plants and refineries owned by the defendants. He alleged exposure to asbestos from friction materials…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana · February 2, 2016
Weis v. Dsm Copolymer, Inc. (2016)
The wife and children of Joseph Weis sued DSM Copolymer and other companies in Louisiana state court. They alleged he developed asbestos-related mesothelioma and died in 2014 after being exposed while working as a maintenance worker at DSM's Baton…
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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 · Washington Court of Appeals · February 10, 2020 · in the opinion
CBS Corporation v. Ulbricht (2020)
…INC., formally known as and as successor in interest to BECHTEL CORPORATION, BECHTEL, INC. BECHTEL McCONE COMPANY, BECHTEL GROUP, INC.; SULZER PUMPS (US), INC., formally known as SULZER BINGHAM PUMPS, INC.; UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION; WARREN PUMPS…