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  1. Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia · July 31, 1986 · in the opinion

    Saunders v. HK Porter Co., Inc. (1986)

    …concerns over admiralty law's preemption of "state regulation of matters traditionally within the ambit of local control," 764 F.2d at 227. Tort law in general, including the statutes of limitation applicable in tort cases…

  2. Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts · August 14, 1981 · in the opinion

    Eagle-Picher Industries v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. (1981)

    …Insurance Company, Mutual Reinsurance Company, Ltd., St. Katherine Insurance Company, Ltd., London & Edinburgh General Insurance Company, Ltd., Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Ltd., Dominion Insurance Company, Ltd., Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Company (U.K.), Ltd…

  3. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · January 22, 1986 · in the opinion

    Jackson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1986)

    …they have already been punished enough. They stated to the trial judge that punitive damages serve to motivate "private attorneys general" to bring suit, but argued that persons injured by asbestos have motivation enough to sue…

  4. Court case · Nebraska Supreme Court · June 26, 1981 · in the opinion

    Osteen v. AC & S., Inc. (1981)

    …which we are now accepting as the law of this State, be deemed unjust, the remedy lies with the General Assembly." Id. at 487. A reminder of the root purpose of workmen's compensation legislation appears…

  5. Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York · January 23, 1984 · in the opinion

    In re Johns-Manville Corp. (1984)

    …at 356 (citations omitted). Thus, the fixation of the point from which to date a statute of limitations includes an assessment of the general need for repose against the need for redress of injury. In contrast…

  6. Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · May 24, 1989 · in the opinion

    Kaufman v. City of New York (1989)

    …the DOB. The protection offered by the legislative process satisfies the requirements of procedural due process when the legislature enacts a law, or an agency promulgates a rule, affecting a general class. See, e.g., J…

  7. Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota · January 11, 1982 · in the opinion

    Bertrand v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)

    …discretion to determine when it should be applied. The general rule should be that in cases where a plaintiff could easily have joined in the earlier action or where, either for the reasons discussed above or…

  8. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · April 21, 1989 · in the opinion

    Smith v. US (1989)

    …1\] The district court correctly rejected the contention that Mrs. Smith filed her administrative claim on August 1, 1986, when she sent it to the Office of General Counsel. See 46 C.F.R. pt. 327 …

  9. Court case · Ohio Court of Appeals · June 7, 1989 · in the opinion

    Gradwell v. AS Helbig Constr. Co. (1989)

    …A. Sierleja and Robert E. Sweeney, for appellant. Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., Attorney General, and William N. O'Neill, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee Industrial Commission. John N. Childs, Michael A. Tramonte and J. William Petro…

  10. Court case · Indiana Court of Appeals · September 29, 1981 · in the opinion

    Bunker v. National Gypsum Co. (1981)

    …0 \ \ 0-9 \ 346 \ 89.6 \ 10.4 \ 36 \ 0 \ 0 \ \ ----------\ -------\ --------\ ----------\ ------\ ------\ ------\ \ Total \ 1,117 \ 51.5 \ 48.5 \ 366 \ 126 \ 50 \ The general purpose of a statute of limitations is to encourage prompt resolution of claims…

  11. Court case · Florida Supreme Court · March 17, 1988 · in the opinion

    Celotex Corp. v. Meehan (1988)

    …allow an expansion of a statute of limitations period when the change is made before the cause of action is barred by the prior statutory limitation period. Corbett v. General Engineering & Machinery Co., 160 Fla. 879…

  12. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · May 24, 1983 · in the opinion

    Wedgeworth v. Fibreboard Corp. (1983)

    …forum. Defendants have not shown that any hardship complained of is the result of proceeding to trial now. Nor is there a showing that the difficulties inherent in the general situation, including potential judicial inefficiency, constitute…

  13. Court case · Arkansas Court of Appeals · May 10, 1989 · in the opinion

    Ark. Okl. Gas v. Public Service Com'n (1989)

    …I am extremely troubled by the Commission's position that employees of appellant are not members of the "general public" and thus are not entitled to the elementary protections afforded other citizens by the Clean Air…

  14. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · July 26, 1982 · in the opinion

    Hardy v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)

    …Borel, we conclude that Borel, while conclusive as to the general matter of a duty to warn on the part of manufacturers of asbestos-containing insulation products, is ultimately ambiguous as to certain key issues. As…

  15. Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · September 22, 1989 · in the opinion

    Roller v. Basic Const. Co. (1989)

    …the time of occurrence of an "injury by accident" is ordinarily obvious. But the General Assembly, realizing that ascertainment of this critical point in time would present great difficulty in the case of the insidious onset…

  16. Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia · October 20, 1981 · in the opinion

    Large v. Bucyrus-Erie Co. (1981)

    …was exposed to silica and asbestos dust while operating the machines. Of course, the general rule in Virginia is that the limitations period begins to run when the initial injury, even if relatively slight, is sustained…

  17. Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 30, 1980

    Dr. Paul Kotin to J. A. McKinney on the Lack of a Corporate Asbestos Policy (1980)

    …. Another grave aspect of the present predicament .is the general uncertainty and the depressing effect on morale that goes with our vacillation. And not less discouraging is the fact that in the absence of any firm…

  18. Company document · Union Carbide documents · December 10, 1982

    J. E. Walsh Letters to Calidria Asbestos Distributors on Passing Along Health and Safety Information, with AIA Pamphlet, Order Form and Material Safety Data Sheet (1982)

    …Lenape Chemicals, Inc., Bound Brook, New Jersey (Dick Kulick) Mostly blank page with a received / general files stamp AIA/NA pamphlet 'Asbestos: A Natural Substance for Modern Needs' (cover, contents and text; OCR garbled), including a…

  19. Medical study · Medical research · 1984

    Long fibre asbestos in a chrysotile textile worker

    …worker and a less pronounced but probably significant shift for the tremolite group. They noted general agreement that long fibres are associated with disease. On that basis they concluded that their findings offered an explanation for…

  20. Medical study · Medical research · 1981

    Asbestos--can it be used safely?

    …to crocidolite. For Quebec chrysotile miners and millers, the mesothelioma risk was perhaps three to six times that of the general population, compared with 100-200 times in insulation workers exposed to mixed fibres. Some data…