449 results for “General Electric”, page 12 of 23
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · September 12, 1991
Mitchell, Inc. v. Maryland Casualty (1991)
…the insured, was entitled to a defense and indemnity because coverage is triggered at least by exposure to its asbestos products during the policy period. Under a standard form comprehensive general liability policy, "bodily injury" from…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas · February 8, 1993
Boyett v. Keene Corp. (1993)
…the plaintiff's settlements with the shipowners and other manufacturers, and it denied States Marine Lines' (Isco's) claim for indemnification from Keene. Under general maritime law, a non-settling defendant gets a settlement credit only…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · June 17, 1999
Burgess v. Abex Corp. (1999)
…and judgment for plaintiffs (the Burgess estate and Francis Burgess) against Abex Corporation and Pittsburgh Corning Corporation on a civil conspiracy theory. A defendant who understands the general objectives of a conspiracy to conceal asbestos hazards…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos fibers are mutagenic after all: new signs of orthodoxy for a paradoxical group of carcinogens
…held that they lacked clear genotoxic potential. He summarized earlier work. There was general agreement that asbestos fibers induced aneuploidy and chromosome breaks. Results on sister chromatid exchanges disagreed. Mammalian cell specific-locus assays had reported…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Sarcomas in organ allograft recipients
…sarcomas were 7.4% of cancers. Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) made up 5.7%, and other sarcomas (OS) 1.7% a much higher proportion than in the general population. KS was most common in Arab, black…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes in mesothelioma--a synopsis
…effective. Therefore, a key to reducing the mortality rate of this neoplasm is knowledge of the general sequence of genetic events between initiation of mesothelial cells and the emergence of the metastatic tumor cells. Unfortunately, relatively…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Pleural mesothelioma
…as localized or diffuse. Diffuse pleural mesotheliomas are invariably malignant. Although the frequency is low in the general population, it is more common in persons with a heavy occupational exposure to asbestos, and is considered as…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Radiological abnormalities and asbestos exposure among custodians of the New York City Board of Education
…New York City Board of Education underwent examination from 1985 through 1987 for asbestos-related disease and other general medical conditions by the clinical staff of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine of the Mount…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Evaluating chemical risks: results of a survey of the British Toxicology Society
…the toxicity of the chemicals involved. 6. In general, British toxicologists were equivocal about the reliability of animal studies in predicting human effects (particularly carcinogenicity) probably because of the belief that animal studies overestimate risk. However…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Detection of serum p53 protein in lung cancer patients
…with potential asbestos exposure), 23 unexposed matched hospital control subjects, 58 unmatched general population control subjects, and 4 people with nonmalignant lung disease using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and Western immunoblotting. Average levels of serum…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Modulating factors in the expression of radiation-induced oncogenic transformation
…scored, to those in human cells growing in nude mice where tumor invasiveness is scored. In general, systems that are most quantitative are also the least relevant in terms of human carcinogenesis and human risk estimation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Augmentation of chrysotile-induced oxidative stress by BHA in mice lungs
Asbestos is known to induce oxidative stress in the lung. The consumption of butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) in preserved food and soft drinks is increasing in the general population, which includes workers in asbestos factories. Because there…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Occupational lung cancer
Exposure to certain industrial agents has been thought to have carcinogenic potential, both for employees who work closely with such agents and for the general population that comes in contact with them. Although case reports, laboratory…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · May 15, 1998 · in the opinion
Porter Hayden v. Bullinger (1998)
…verdict in favor of the hirer. The trial proceeded, resulting in judgments in favor of the plaintiff against the adverse driver and his general employer. On the plaintiff's appeal, the Court vacated the judgment in…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Ohio · December 4, 1995 · in the opinion
In re Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. (1995)
…in terms of [\690] priority within the company's capital structure, recognizing it is a general unsecured claim of the company's, and we looked at what would be an appropriate discount rate for any claim…
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Court case · Colorado Court of Appeals · September 12, 1991 · in the opinion
Fenton v. Fibreboard Corp. (1991)
…witnesses' services shown. In addition to the fees for expert testimony, plaintiff's bills of costs included deposition costs and "general expenses." It is unclear whether the court found these costs reasonable or which, if any…
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Court case · U.S. Supreme Court · June 23, 1997 · in the opinion
Metro-North Commuter R. Co. v. Buckley (1997)
…harms suffered by a sympathetic individual plaintiff, so they must consider the general impact, on workers as well as employers, of the general liability rules they would thereby create. Here the relevant question concerns not simply…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · February 20, 1990 · in the opinion
Grispo v. Eagle-Picher Indus. (In re Joint E. & S. Dist. New York Asbestos Lit., 1990)
682, § 4, which was enacted after Casabianca and which extended the limitations period for persons injured by asbestos, and found a general legislative disposition favoring compensation of victims of asbestos exposure. This aim, the court reasoned…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · December 9, 1992
Taliferro v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1992)
…Fear of Cancer and Medical Monitoring; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Philadelphia Navy Yard); Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia laborer doing general cleanup and debris removal on ships Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Philadelphia 1967-1981
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · July 27, 1990
JH France Refractories v. Allstate Insurance Co. (1990)
…s allocation and held that insurers pay pro rata by time on the risk, with France bearing uninsured periods. Under comprehensive general liability policies, the entire asbestos disease process from first exposure to manifestation triggers coverage…