87 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 5
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · August 31, 1982 · in the opinion
Neal v. Carey Canadian Mines, Ltd. (1982)
…cite the cases of Toppi v. United States, 332 F.Supp. 513 (E.D.Pa.1971) and Lockett v. General Electric Co., 376 F.Supp. 1201 (E.D.Pa.1974), aff'd, 511 F.2d 1394 …
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Colorado · March 13, 1989 · in the opinion
Miller v. Celotex Corp. (1989)
…defendants. I conclude that plaintiff has failed to present sufficient persuasive evidence for a reasonable jury to rule in his favor on the running of the statute of limitations. See Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Zenith…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · January 30, 1986 · in the opinion
Lohrmann v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (1986)
…a given industry. They are often set forth in some type of code, such as a building code or electrical code, or they may be adopted by the trade organization of a given industry. State of…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · April 8, 1981 · in the opinion
Porter v. American Optical Corp. (1981)
…the Louisiana Court of Appeals commented on this general rule outlined in Weber by adding: The foregoing rule requires the manufacturer to exercise reasonable care in the design of its products which are of such nature…
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Court case · North Carolina Supreme Court · November 5, 1985 · in the opinion
Wilder v. Amatex Corp. (1985)
…E.2d 281 (1972); Galligan v. Chapel Hill, 276 N.C. 172, 171 S.E.2d 427 (1970); Domestic Electric Service Co., Inc. v. Rocky Mount, 20 N.C.App. 347, 201 S.E.2d 508…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · December 23, 1981 · in the opinion
Petes v. Hayes (1981)
…was phrased "Does plaintiff, Alton Petes, suffer from disability or disease which specifically results from the inhalation of asbestos particles ..." (Emphasis added.) "Specifically" was not defined in the general charge. In its everyday usage, "specifically" is…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia · July 19, 1984 · in the opinion
Joyce v. AC & s., Inc. (1984)
…asbestos insulation materials. Plaintiff, an industrial electrician who had worked with asbestos insulation from 1948 to 1972, claimed that inhalation of asbestos fibers and dust during that period had caused him to develop mesothelioma, a cancerous…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas · August 13, 1982 · in the opinion
Gill v. Pacor, Inc. (1982)
…services, society. These are the things that are encompassed in the general description or the technical word that we use as "consortium." That is the nature of Mrs. Gill's claim; that by virtue of the…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court · March 8, 1985 · in the opinion
Devlin v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1985)
… 26, provides that the general rules against claim splitting are rendered inapplicable when: (b) The court in the first action has expressly reserved the plaintiff's right to maintain the second action or; (f) it is…
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Court case · New Jersey Supreme Court · April 19, 1982 · in the opinion
Beshada v. Johns-Manville Products Corp. (1982)
…Rather, defendants state, the cost "will be borne by the public at large and reflected in a general, across the board increase in premiums to compensate for unanticipated risks." There is some truth in this assertion…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestos fibers in the general population
…pleura. Counts did not differ significantly by sex or smoking. The authors concluded that substantial asbestos, mostly too small to form asbestos bodies, is present in the average urban lung and probably reflects general environmental contamination.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Asbestos-related pleural thickening: effect of threshold criteria on interpretation
This study, from the radiology department of Massachusetts General Hospital, examined how the rule for what counts as pleural thickening on a chest X-ray changes survey results. Chest radiographs from 1,216 workers at six…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas · January 12, 1984
Castorina v. Lykes Bros. SS Co., Inc. (1984)
…under 33 U.S.C. § 905(b) and general maritime law. He claimed injury from asbestos exposure while unloading raw asbestos in burlap bags from Lykes ships between 1965 and 1972. The bags tore and leaked…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Interaction of asbestos, age, and cigarette smoking in producing radiographic evidence of diffuse pulmonary fibrosis
…populations with different levels of exposure to asbestos and with different cigarette smoking histories shows that smoking in the general population does not produce pulmonary fibrosis recognizable on chest radiography. In the general population of Michigan…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Value of the lateral view in diagnosing pleural plaques
…assess the value of the lateral view in the diagnosis of pleural plaques, 2018 chest roentgenograms from the general population were scrutinized for such plaques. The lateral and posterior-anterior (PA) views were read separately and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos exposure in the Monfalcone area. A social and pathological study of 100 autopsy cases
This study examined 100 consecutive autopsies (73 males and 27 females, aged 39 to 91) performed between October 1979 and June 1980 at the general hospital of Monfalcone, an Italian town with large shipyards. The authors…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · May 7, 1986
Silver v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
…§ 1-50(6), barred the claim because his last exposure was in 1961. The Fourth Circuit agreed that the statute applies to wrongful death actions in general. It held, however, that the statute did not apply…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos-related diseases in the Federal Republic of Germany
…and 85 (78 men, seven women) had died. Compared with the age- and sex-specific pattern of deaths in the general population, the share of deaths from lung cancer (17 cases, standardized proportional mortality ratio 3…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
The silent epidemic: asbestosis and related diseases
…20% to 50% of asbestosis patients. It stated that asbestos workers who smoke have a 10 times greater chance of developing lung cancer than smokers in the general population, and a 75 to 100 times greater…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Current issues in the pathologic and mineralogic diagnosis of asbestos-induced disease
…as the main problem. The author wrote that a million chrysotile fibers per gram of dry lung fit general-population background levels. A million amosite or crocidolite fibers per gram almost certainly indicated substantial occupational exposure…