194 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 10
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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 · August 25, 2009
Ross v. Union Carbide Corporation (2009)
The en banc court affirmed summary judgment for Union Carbide, holding that the 1993 release signed by Homer and Marjorie Ross barred the survivors' exemplary-damages and loss-of-consortium claims, and it overruled Perez v…
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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 · California Court of Appeal · November 16, 2010
Stewart v. Union Carbide Corporation (2010)
…Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment for Larry and Janet Stewart against Union Carbide, including the $6 million punitive damages award, rejecting all of Union Carbide's challenges. A raw asbestos supplier that gave no warning…
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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 · California Court of Appeal · July 11, 2017
Stewart v. Union Carbide Corporation (2017)
The Court of Appeal affirmed judgment for Union Carbide, upholding summary adjudication that Janet Stewart's loss of consortium claim was barred by res judicata and the setoff of her husband's asbestos trust settlements against…
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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 · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · February 24, 2015 · in the opinion
Sroka v. Union Carbide Corp. (2015)
…Union Carbide Corporation; John Crane-Houdaille, Inc.; Owens-Illinois Glass Company; E.L. Stebbing & Co., Inc.; Hampshire Industries, Inc.; Universal Refractories Company; J.H. France Refractories Company; The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company; MCIC, Inc.; CBS Corporation…
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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 · February 15, 2023
Stauder v. Shell Oil Company (2023)
…Stauder sister $2.75 million in wrongful death damages against Union Carbide and the award of judicial interest running from the original 2016 petition, rejecting Union Carbide's challenges. An appellate court may disturb a general…
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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 · 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 · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · July 21, 2010
Summers v. Certainteed Corp. (2010)
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed the Superior Court's order affirming summary judgment for Union Carbide, Certainteed and Allied Signal, disapproved Quate v. American Standard, and sent the cases back so Summers and Nybeck could proceed…
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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…