11 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Lung cancer and mesothelioma in the pleura and peritoneum among Swedish insulation workers
…some years after the exposure had ended. In a cohort study the cancer morbidity and cause of death was investigated in 248 insulation workers and compared with the corresponding morbidity and mortality in the general population…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 27, 1990
Chevron USA v. Workers'comp. Appeals BD. (1990)
…mesothelioma was not an outgrowth of the asbestosis. It also held that a 1986 California Supreme Court case, General Foundry, did not require a single date of injury. It denied the family's request for attorney…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Peritoneal mesothelioma: the role of computed tomography in diagnosis and follow up
…On follow-up, seven of eight patients showed increasing disease, but this was judged by general impression rather than precise measurement. The authors found no CT feature that was diagnostic. They concluded that CT is at…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Survival of asbestos insulation workers with mesothelioma
Malignant mesothelioma is a lethal disease. It is rare in the general population; however, workers exposed to asbestos suffer significant burdens of the neoplasm. The survival time of 457 consecutive fatal cases of pleural and peritoneal…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Colon cancers and peritoneal mesothelioma occurring 29 years after abdominal radiation for testicular seminoma. A case report and review of the literature
…cancers and a peritoneal mesothelioma. Both types of cancer are independently reported in the literature to be more frequent in patients with a history of abdominal radiation than in the general population. To our knowledge there…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Mineral fiber content of lung tissue in patients with environmental exposures: household contacts vs. building occupants
…occupationally exposed individuals. In contrast, our studies of four occupants of buildings with asbestos-containing materials indicate that these individuals often have pulmonary asbestos burdens indistinguishable from the general nonoccupationally exposed population. However, one such building…
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Court case · Michigan Court of Appeals · November 21, 1997 · in the opinion
Faulkner Const. v. Silicosis Fund (1997)
…or other dust disease posing such a general threat to the industry. Hence whenever an employer asserts that the limitation of \[the predecessor statute\] should be applied to the dust disease causing the disability for which…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · June 14, 1990 · in the opinion
Owens Corning Fiberglas v. Ind. Comm'n (1990)
…(See A.O. Smith Corp., 109 Ill.2d 52, 485 N.E.2d 335; General American Life Insurance Co. v. Industrial Comm'n (1983), 97 Ill.2d 359, 454 N.E.2d 643.) That the claimant…
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Court case · California Supreme Court · January 25, 1999 · in the opinion
Chevron USA, Inc. v. Wcab (1999)
…health and safety and general welfare of any and all workers and those dependent upon them for support to the extent of relieving from the consequences of any injury or death incurred or sustained by workers…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 14, 1994 · in the opinion
Coates v. AC and S, Inc. (1994)
…599 So.2d at 1062 n. 13. \[10\] Johnstone was a case under the general maritime law which adopted Louisiana law as the law of the adjacent state. \[11\] Defendants contend that the use of OSHA…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · November 23, 1994 · in the opinion
Adcock v. Brakegate, Ltd. (1994)
…the theory of civil conspiracy. (Restatement (Second) of Torts § 876, Comment c on Clause (a) (1977).) A defendant who understands the general objectives of the conspiratorial scheme, accepts them, and agrees, either explicitly or implicitly to…