29 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 25, 1983 · in the opinion
Froud v. Celotex Corp. (1983)
…2d 199, 214-15, 90 S.Ct. 1583, 1595-96 (Black, J., dissenting); General Dynamics Corp., Electric Boat Division, v. Benefits Review Board (2d Cir.1977), 565 F.2d 208, 212; Williams v. Ray (1978), 146…
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Court case · Maine Supreme Judicial Court · October 15, 1986 · in the opinion
Bernier v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1986)
…is an important limitation of the seller's liability. In general, "\[t\]he rule of strict liability subjects the seller to liability to [\540] the user or consumer even though he has exercised all possible care…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
US surgeon general ignites furor with findings on smoking in the workplace
…news article, not a research study. A freelance writer described the US Surgeon General's December 1985 Smoking and Health report on cancer and chronic lung disease in the workplace, and the reaction to it. According…
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Court case · West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals · December 19, 1980
Powell v. State Workmen's Compensation Com'r (1980)
…Code § 23-4-1 even though it also occurs in the general public, and the claimant need not prove an intermediate occupational disease such as asbestosis or negate all non-occupational causes such as smoking. Causation…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · December 14, 1983
Skip Fordyce, Inc. v. Workers'comp. Appeals BD. (1983)
…and multiple-level hearsay from a doctor's report, a general pamphlet and an unsupported 'admission' that brake linings contain asbestos does not supply it. Medical opinions based on statistical studies can be substantial evidence of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Diseases associated with asbestos exposure. Diagnostic perspectives in forensic pathology
…from highest to lowest risk: direct occupational, indirect occupational, neighborhood, and household and family. They said the risk from general environmental exposure was not known. They described pleural effusions, pleural plaques, asbestosis, pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Mortality among employees of an Ontario asbestos-cement factory
…cancers, and 17 deaths from mesothelioma; the factory control subjects had mortality rates similar to the general population. The cell-type distribution of the lung cancers was similar to that occurring in middle-aged smokers. Cumulative…
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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 · 1985
Combined effect of asbestos and smoking on mortality from lung cancer and mesothelioma in factory workers
…Deaths were tracked to 1980. There was no unexposed comparison group, so lung cancer deaths were compared with numbers expected from death rates in the general population of the region, adjusted for smoking. After this adjustment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestos associated tumours in car mechanics
…cancer register (1961-79, ages 20 to 69), and compared observed cases with the numbers expected from the general population. One mesothelioma was found in the cancer register and none in the death register. That man…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Increased risk of lung cancer in pesticide-exposed male agricultural workers
…5 yr. The SMR (standardized mortality ratio) of 2.0 for lung cancer morbidity (mortality) in these pesticide-exposed subjects was significantly higher than that for the general male population of the German Democratic Republic. A…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Assessment of the epidemiological data relating lung cancer to air pollution
…cancer likely greater than zero but unlikely to exceed 2% of all lung cancers, or 5 per 100,000 cases in urban males. The author concluded there was no reason to repeat such general-population studies.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Familial mesothelioma: a report of two families
…asbestos bodies per gram of wet lung tissue. This was well within the lower limits seen in the general urban population with no occupational history of asbestos exposure. The authors concluded that genetic factors may be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Smoking, coal, asbestos, and the lungs
…asbestos levels and smoking would cut lung cancer in workers, that cutting smoking would have more effect in asbestos-exposed workers than in the general population, and that banning tobacco advertising would be a sensible next…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Contribution of environmental fibers to respiratory cancer
…large. Using a KL of 0.01, the authors estimated fewer than 100 lung cancers and 100 mesotheliomas per year in the general population from past ambient exposures. They noted great uncertainty in these estimates. They…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
The costs and effects of screening for cancer among asbestos-exposed workers
…We have reviewed the data on the general effectiveness of screening for the two most common cancers found in these workers (lung cancer and colo-rectal cancer) and have compared the relative benefits expected from screening…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Mineral particles, mineral fibers, and lung cancer
…smoking history, and general occupational class. The lung cancer patients had an average of 525 +/- 369 X 10(6) exogenous mineral particles and 17.4 +/- 19.6 X 10(6) exogenous mineral fibers/g dry lung…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
The second diagnosis: the role of the pathologist in identifying pneumoconioses in lungs excised for tumor
This short review in the journal's Current Topics section, written by a lung pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argued that pathologists examining lungs removed for tumor should also make a 'second diagnosis' of disease in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Asbestos content of lung tissue in asbestos associated diseases: a study of 110 cases
…which are the hallmark of asbestos exposure, were present in the lungs of virtually everyone in the general population and present at increased levels in individuals with asbestos associated diseases. The highest numbers of AB occurred…
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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…