Conwed Corp. v. Union Carbide Corp.

ORDER ON DEFENDANT’S RENEWED MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT ON BULK SUPPLIER / SOPHISTICATED USER GROUNDS

ALSOP, Senior District Judge.

This is a workers’ compensation subro-gation action under Minnesota law. Plain tiff Conwed Corporation (“Conwed”) paid workers’ compensation benefits to many of its former employees who developed asbestos-related diseases. Conwed claims that Defendant Union Carbide Corporation (“Union Carbide”) is liable to Conwed for those benefit payments because Union Carbide failed adequately to warn of the hazards of asbestos that Union Carbide manufactured and sold to…