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  1. Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · November 22, 1999

    Miller v. Foster Wheeler Co. (1999)

    Creighton Miller, as administrator of the estates of seamen William Blecker and Willie Holmes, sued a large group of manufacturers and shipping companies. Blecker was diagnosed with mesothelioma in August 1989 and died in October 1992. Holmes was…

  2. Court case · California Court of Appeal · August 3, 1998 · in the opinion

    Scheiding v. General Motors Corp. (1998)

    …230, 67 S.Ct. 1146, 91 L.Ed. 1447.) Accordingly, "\[p\]reemption fundamentally is a question of congressional intent." (English v. General Electric Co. (1990) 496 U.S. 72, 78-79, 110 S.Ct. 2270, 110…

  3. Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 12, 1998 · in the opinion

    Arena v. Owens Corning Corp. (1998)

    …reach the consumer in the same condition as it left the manufacturer\]; and Artiglio v. General Electric Co. (1998) 61 Cal.App.4th 830, 71 Cal.Rptr.2d 817 \[silcone supplier not liable to user of…

  4. Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · April 24, 1997 · in the opinion

    Conway v. Raymark Indus. (In re Asbestos Litigation, 1997)

    …Fed.Cir.1985); In re Upjohn Co. Antibiotic Cleocin Products Liability Litigation, 664 F.2d 114, 118 (6th Cir.1981); General Electric Co. v. Byrne, 611 F.2d 670, 673 (7th Cir.1979). Judge Weiner's…

  5. Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · March 2, 1994

    Atkinson v. Celotex Corp. (1994)

    …Service Refinery approximately 35 years; electrician Cities Service Refinery 22 years; various crafts Cities Service Refinery 18 years; pipe fitter Cities Service Refinery 35 years; general craft foreman Cities Service Refinery 32 years; laborer Cities Service…

  6. Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · April 27, 1995 · in the opinion

    ACandS, Inc. v. Asner (1995)

    …Travelers"), PH's insurer, in which Travelers stated: The Travelers Insurance Company has been underwriting your Workmen's Compensation and General Liability since January 1953 and unfortunately, there have been some serious losses during this period…

  7. Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · October 21, 1998 · in the opinion

    Asbestos v. Bordelon, Inc. (1998)

    …Bordelon's health. The trial court has much discretion in assessing general damages, and an appellate court should not modify the award unless it is beyond that which a reasonable trier of fact could assess for…

  8. Court case · California Supreme Court · August 28, 1997 · in the opinion

    Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1997)

    …contained both amosite and chrysotile asbestos fibers. John McKinley, who worked as an electrician at Mare Island, recalled working with Rutherford in the early 1950's. He testified that Rutherford and he were often required to…

  9. Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 27, 1996 · in the opinion

    Gautreaux v. Rheem Mfg. Co. (1996)

    …composition of asbestos falls under the second category of judicially noticeable facts as it requires a "resort to sources." It is not "generally known." Because it requires reference to "sources" outside the realm of general knowledge…

  10. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · August 17, 1998 · in the opinion

    Cimino v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1998)

    …that exposure sufficient to cause asbestosis is also sufficient to cause mesothelioma, lung cancer, and pleural plaques. \[18\] The crafts were divided into four general groupings: "Production Crafts" (some thirteen in all, including e.g. pumper…

  11. Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · July 16, 1991 · in the opinion

    Fibreboard Corp. v. Pool (1991)

    …1969). Quantifying probability, it means a more than fifty percent chance. See Fidelity & Guaranty Ins. Underwriters v. Gary Douglas Electric, 48 Ohio App.2d 319, 357 N.E.2d 388, 392 (1974). Dr. J.D. Britton…

  12. Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · January 28, 1998 · in the opinion

    Re' v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)

    …J., dissents with reasons. BYRNES, Judge, dissenting with reasons. When the Louisiana Supreme Court in Jordan v. Central Louisiana Electric Co., Inc., 95-1270 (La.6/23/95), 656 So.2d 988, 989 held that the…

  13. Medical study · Medical research · 1992

    Performance of two general job-exposure matrices in a study of lung cancer morbidity in the Zutphen cohort

    …of lung cancer morbidity incidence. The two general job-exposure matrices generally disagreed with regard to exposure classification because of differences in exposure assessment and level of detail of the job axis. When compared with self…

  14. Court case · Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas · September 30, 1996

    Blase v. Allied Signal Inc. (1996)

    Mildred Blase sued several companies after the death of her husband, Harold Blase, an auto mechanic at Bell of Pennsylvania. She claimed that working with the defendants' products, which allegedly contained asbestos, caused his lung cancer and…

  15. Court case · North Dakota Supreme Court · December 22, 1999

    Black v. Abex Corp. (1999)

    …Court affirmed summary judgment for Allied-Signal, Borg-Warner, Chrysler and General Motors, dismissing Rochelle Black's market share and alternative liability claims. Even assuming market share liability were recognized, a plaintiff must present admissible evidence…

  16. Medical study · Medical research · 1995

    Detection of mineral fibre carcinogenicity with the intraperitoneal test--recent results and their validity

    The general experimental design of intraperitoneal (i.p.) carcinogenicity studies with inorganic fibres in rats is described. In a current study, in addition to glass microfibres, size-separated fine respirable fractions of commercial insulation wools (MMVF…

  17. Medical study · Medical research · 1998

    Association between diet and lung cancer location

    This study used data from a hospital case-control study to look at 328 patients with newly diagnosed primary lung cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital between December 1992 and August 1996. Almost all had tumors that…

  18. 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…

  19. Medical study · Medical research · 1991

    Absence of evidence for a significant background incidence of diffuse malignant mesothelioma apart from asbestos exposure

    …1940s. One must conclude that the background level of diffuse malignant mesothelioma in Europe and in the United States prior to 1930 was extremely low. No case was detected at the Massachusetts General Hospital until 1946.

  20. Medical study · Medical research · 1999

    Maintenance work and asbestos-related cancers in the refinery and petrochemical sector

    …are at increased risk of lung cancer. The author noted that refinery and petrochemical workers overall have lower lung cancer rates than the general population, with one review reporting lung cancer mortality at 77% of the…