9 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · April 2, 2004
Roberts v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (2004)
…not know of mesothelioma specifically. It reinstated liability for CertainTeed, Fibreboard and Flintkote, found no error as to Foster Wheeler and General Electric, and removed Gasket Holding. It upheld the damage awards. Exxon owed a virile…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · September 14, 2007
Terrance v. Dow Chemical Company (2007)
The court affirmed the judgment on the jury's $5,000,000 general damages verdict for the Terrance estate and surviving spouse against Exxon, and denied Exxon's JNOV, new trial and remittitur motions. Mesothelioma was…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · April 19, 2007 · in the opinion
Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Altimore (2007)
Altimore or those "similarly situated" takes the focus off Exxon's knowledge of a general danger relative to the qualities of asbestos. By focusing on epidemiological studies, the majority fails to follow our earlier pronouncement that…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · April 3, 2008
Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Altimore (2008)
…its conduct posed an extreme degree of risk. General knowledge of asbestos risk to employees was not evidence of knowledge of an extreme risk to employees' family members. Expert Testimony; Punitive Damages Worksites: Exxon Baytown refinery…
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Court case · New Jersey Supreme Court · April 24, 2006 · in the opinion
Olivo v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (2006)
…625 A.2d 1110). B. Applying those general principles of tort liability to the facts of this case, the risk of injury to someone like Eleanor Olivo is one that should have been foreseeable to Exxon…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · May 5, 2005 · in the opinion
Olivo v. Exxon Mobil Corporation (2005)
…In New Jersey, however, the common law of premises liability "has undergone transition toward \a broadening application of a general tort obligation to exercise reasonable care against foreseeable harm to others.'" Sussman, supra, 373 N.J…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · September 9, 2008 · in the opinion
Spillman v. Anco Insulations, Inc. (2008)
…Roggli testified that an examination of a lung tissue sample from Mr. Spillman confirmed that he was exposed to asbestos at a rate much higher than that of the general background population. \[3\] La. C.C…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · November 9, 2001 · in the opinion
Emery v. Owens-Corporation (2001)
…suitable references to plaintiff's closing argument), we issue a precautionary warning that the general reference to "witnesses" in its admissibility assertion skirts the outer perimeter of Rule 2-12.4. \[9\] See La. Acts 1979…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · August 1, 2006 · in the opinion
Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Altimore (2006)
…9 (Tex. App.CHouston \[14th Dist.\] 2004, pet. denied). Foreseeability requires only that the general danger, not the exact sequence of events that produced the harm, be foreseeable. Id. The Texas Supreme Court has frequently stated…