N.Y. Court Awards Union Carbide Summary Judgment on Product Identification Grounds

NEW YORK –– Union Carbide has been awarded summary judgment in an asbestos case brought by the surviving family members of a Ukrainian immigrant, ruling that the plaintiffs had failed to demonstrate that the defendant provided the asbestos-containing components in the circuit breakers and panel boxes with which the decedent allegedly worked.

In the May 3 order, the New York Supreme Court for New York County wrote that the plaintiffs’ evidence failed to establish that the facility in question even produced the allegedly harmful products.

The claims were brought on behalf of Leonid Liberman, a Ukrainian immigrant who came to …