449 results for “General Electric”, page 8 of 23
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia · May 28, 1997
McCormick v. CE Thurston & Sons, Inc. (1997)
…aboard the ship. She sued through her ancillary administrator in Newport News state court under the Jones Act, the Death on the High Seas Act and general maritime law, alleging a failure to warn. Thurston removed…
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Court case · Indiana Court of Appeals · March 17, 1999
Novicki v. Rapid-American Corp. (1999)
…and Rapid-American conceded it did not. The case therefore fell under section 5, the general product liability limitation and repose provision. Because the parties had not briefed section 5, the court remanded for further argument…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · July 2, 1990
White v. Celotex Corp. (1990)
…The Ninth Circuit affirmed. It held that the defendants' general sale of asbestos insulation during those years was not evidence that they supplied the asbestos Edward encountered. It also found market share liability unsuited to asbestos…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York · November 28, 1994
Penny v. United Fruit Co. (1994)
…citizen, developed mesothelioma and died in 1986 at age 44. She alleged asbestos exposure aboard the ships and sued under the Jones Act, general maritime law and New York law. The shipowners Cunard Steam, Elders, Royal…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · June 2, 1993
Jackson v. Anchor Packing Co. (1993)
…had worked at the plant for sixteen to twenty-three years between 1956 and 1979. Most were general tireworkers who did not handle the products. The complaint and the doctors' testimony said the workers had asbestosis…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · February 18, 1992
Rittenhouse v. St. Regis Hotel Joint Venture (1992)
…She had survived cancer in 1982 and became very anxious about contracting mesothelioma. She sued the hotel owners, general contractor, asbestos removal subcontractors, architects and the liquidation company for emotional distress and "cancerphobia." The trial court…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · January 25, 1990
In re Fibreboard Corp. (1990)
…authority. It reasoned that Texas law requires each plaintiff to prove causation and damage, and that a group-based statistical trial could prove only general causation. It also held that the class members' differences in disease…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · September 19, 1997
Barr v. ACandS, Inc. (1997)
…2, allows suit within one year after disability. Following Darden v. General Motors, the Court of Appeal held that filing the first suit started the one-year period for all potentially responsible defendants, named or not…
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Government report · 1995
Toxicological Profile for Asbestos (1995)
…studies of inhalation, oral and dermal exposure, including cancer. Later chapters cover the six asbestos minerals, facilities that made or processed asbestos, releases to the environment, typical general-population and occupational exposures, testing methods, and regulations.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos in lung tissue
…as the level identifying asbestos exposure. The author wrote that in the author's laboratory, 100 asbestos bodies per 5 g was the upper limit in the general population of Houston, Texas and Durham, North Carolina…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Occupational risk factors for Alzheimer disease: a case-control study
…including asbestos, were linked to Alzheimer disease. It compared 170 patients clinically diagnosed with probable or possible Alzheimer disease at two Sydney hospitals with 170 controls from general practices, matched for age and sex. Interviews took…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Re: Mesothelioma in railroad machinists
…800,000 tremolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The general-population 95th percentile for amosite plus crocidolite was 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The authors stated that the amosite plus crocidolite values…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Malignant pleural mesothelioma associated with exposure to tremolite
…microscopy showed that rock and whitewash samples consisted primarily of asbestiform tremolite. Air sampling in two villages found no tremolite fibres in the general atmosphere. High concentrations were found in road dust clouds from a car…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
A study of lung cancer mortality in asbestos workers: Doll, 1955
…mice by asbestos, were circulated in confidence to its scientists, but being unpublished were unknown to the general scientific community. There were also cancer mortality data recorded for populations of exposed asbestos workers, but these were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Industrial hygiene review of three manufacturing facilities in Senegal: findings and key questions
…name the type of asbestos used. Average noise levels were above 93 dBA. General dust levels averaged approximately 2.5 milligrams per cubic meter, against a background of about 0.1. Respiratory protection was mostly dust…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Human disease consequences of fiber exposures: a review of human lung pathology and fiber burden data
…medians, except one study reporting only a mean), extremely high compared with general-population background levels. The reviewed studies indicated that mesothelioma may occur with fiber burdens considerably lower than those needed to produce asbestosis. One…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Assessing quality of life when planning and evaluating worker notification programs: two case examples
…action. Signs of minimizing the risk were reported by 34.7% of nonattenders and 15.8% of attenders. The second case was a questionnaire about workplace carcinogens in general, returned by 369 paper industry workers. Over…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Maintenance work and asbestos-related cancers in the refinery and petrochemical sector
…ratios (SMRs, which compare observed deaths with those expected in the general population) were below 100. The author noted that refinery workers as a group have had lower lung cancer risk than the general population, so…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Radiographic asbestosis is not a prerequisite for asbestos-associated lung cancer in Ontario asbestos-cement workers
…hired before 1960 who had at least one chest X-ray available. Deaths were tracked to the end of 1985 and compared with the general population of Ontario. A single certified reader classified the X-rays…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Immunohistochemical staining of ras oncogene product in neoplastic and non-neoplastic mesothelial tissues: immunoreactivity for N-ras and lack of immunohistochemical staining for Ha-ras and K-ras
…non-cancerous) pleural mesothelium, 20 of which showed hyperplasia. They used antibodies against ras protein in general (pan-ras) and against three specific forms: Ha-ras, K-ras and N-ras. The article does not report…