6 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · July 23, 1993 · in the opinion
Maiorana v. United States Mineral Prods. Co. (In re Joint Eastern & Southern Dist. Asbestos Lit., 1993)
…in which HRH complained that the general contractor was not cleaning up the dust from the asbestos spraying. Although Castagna dismisses the examples of constructive notice as "these obscure references" which are "wholly insufficient as a…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · April 6, 1995 · in the opinion
Maiorana v. United States Mineral Prods. Co. (In re Joint Eastern & Southern Dist. Asbestos Lit., 1995)
…479 (1986). \[4\] Bjorn Hilt et al., Asbestos Exposure, Smoking Habits, and Cancer Incidence Among Production and Maintenance Workers in an Electrochemical Plant, 8 AM.J.INDUS.MED. 565, 571 (1985). \[5\] The court pointed out…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Squamous cell carcinoma of the colon in an asbestos worker
This case report from Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, UK, described one 66-year-old man with squamous cell carcinoma of the colon at the hepatic flexure. He was known to have pleural plaques caused by…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · February 27, 1992 · in the opinion
Betts v. Manville Personal Injury Trust (1992)
…that would include fibrosis of the lungs. Plaintiffs do not contend the answers to the special interrogatories are inconsistent with the general verdicts as to Deitz and Lehr. The language employed is not ambiguous or confusing…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Asbestos and colon cancer: lack of association in a large case-control study
…frequency or duration of exposure increased. This study suggests not only that occupational exposure to asbestos is not a risk factor for colon cancer in the general population of Los Angeles, but also that observed associations…
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Court case · New Jersey Supreme Court · March 25, 1991 · in the opinion
Landrigan v. Celotex Corp. (1991)
…that in toxic-tort litigation, a scientific theory of causation that has not yet reached general acceptance may be found to be sufficiently reliable if it is based on a sound, adequately-founded scientific methodology involving…