Court Adds to Union Carbide's Liability for $1.8 Million Calidria Verdict

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A Florida appeals court has ordered Union Carbide to pay 90 percent of a $1.8 million verdict awarded to a former drywaller with asbestosis after jurors allocated the majority of fault to three defendants who were no longer parties to the case. Lagueux v. Union Carbide Corp., No. 4D03-383 (Fla. Ct. App., Fourth Dist.).

In a decision released Nov. 26, the Fourth District Court of Appeal held that Union Carbide is liable for most of the verdict because it failed to produce specific evidence justifying the inclusion of the non-parties in the jury instructions and …