DEARIEN v. UNION CARBIDE CORP.

Civil Action No. 2:20-cv-00285.

530 F.Supp.3d 622 (2021)

Christina L. DEARIEN and Thomas G. Dearien, her husband, Plaintiffs, v. UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION, a New York corporation; the Dow Chemical Company, a Delaware corporation; New River Trucking, LLC, a West Virginia limited liability company; Univar, Inc. through its acquired wholly-owned subsidiary Nexeo Solutions, a Delaware corporation; Spectrum Chemical Manufacturing Corp., a California corporation; and Allnex, USA, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. West Virginia, at Charleston.

Signed March 30, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. Lunsford , Mark R. Staun , Robert Dean Hartley , Sean Xiangnan Xing , Hartley Law Group, Wheeling, WV, Robert V. Berthold, III , Robert V. Berthold, Jr. , Berthold Law Firm, Charleston, WV, for Plaintiffs.

Patricia M. Bello , Ronald Scott Masterson , Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Charleston, WV, for Defendant Union Carbide Corporation.

Floyd E. Boone, Jr. , Bowles Rice, Charleston, WV, for Defendant The Dow Chemical Company.

Matthew G. Breneman , Sharon Z. Hall , Zimmer Kunz, Pittsburgh, PA, for Defendant New River Trucking, LLC.

David Patrick Lodge , Pro Hac Vice, Fishkin Lucks, Philadelphia, PA, Meghan Marlene Capps , Michael Bonasso , Jason A. Proctor , Flaherty Sensabaugh & Bonasso, Charleston, WV, Steven M. Lucks , Pro Hac Vice, Fishkin Lucks, Newark, NJ, for Defendant Univar, Inc.

David Patrick Lodge , Pro Hac Vice, Fishkin Lucks, Philadelphia, PA, Meghan Marlene Capps , Michael Bonasso , Flaherty Sensabaugh & Bonasso, Charleston, WV, for Defendant NEXEO Solutions.

Robert A. Lockhart , Cipriani & Werner, Charleston, WV, for Defendant Spectrum Chemical Manufacturing Corp.

James Brydie , Marc E. Williams , Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, Huntington, WV, for Defendant Allnex, USA, Inc.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

Pending is the plaintiffs' motion to remand this action to Kanawha County Circuit Court, filed May 18, 2020 (ECF No. 9).

I. Background

The plaintiffs, Christina and Thomas Dearien, commenced this action on or about May 1, 2019,...

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