Following a nine-day trial in Athens, a jury took less than three hours to clear Union Carbide Corp. of claims that asbestos it made, used in construction at the University of Georgia, caused a UGA employee’s cancer.
Plaintiff’s attorney Robert C. Buck said a last-minute settlement between his client and a co-defendant, Georgia-Pacific LLC, allowed Union Carbide to “essentially point the finger at Georgia-Pacific” and avoid liability.
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