1,631 results for “General Electric”, page 31 of 82
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Individual experiences and impacts of a physiotherapist-led, non-pharmacological breathlessness programme for patients with intrathoracic malignancy: a qualitative study
This qualitative interview study, from North Tyneside General Hospital in the UK, asked patients with intrathoracic malignancy (lung cancer or pleural mesothelioma) about a physiotherapist-led breathlessness programme that did not use drugs. The programme taught…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Peritoneal mesothelioma masquerading as an inguinal hernia
This was a case report about one patient treated in the Department of General Surgery at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, UK. An 80-year-old retired steel worker came to hospital with what looked…
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Court case · Georgia Court of Appeals · July 16, 2015
Fletcher v. Water Applications Distribution (2015)
The Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for Water Applications and for CertainTeed on the manufacturing-defect and general negligence claims, but reversed summary judgment for CertainTeed on Fletcher's design defect and failure-to-warn…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit · November 6, 2015
Fidelity and Guaranty Insurance Underwriters, Inc. v. US (2015)
…general liability insurer USF&G lost its Tucker Act suit against the United States seeking indemnity for its settlement and legal costs. The Tucker Act's waiver of sovereign immunity does not extend to a general…
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Court case · New York Court of Appeals · June 28, 2016
Konstantin v. Tishman Liquidating Corp. (Matter of New York City Asbestos Litig., 2016)
Dave John Konstantin worked as a carpenter in the 1970s at two Manhattan construction sites where Tishman Liquidating Corporation (TLC) was the general contractor. He worked near other workers who sanded and swept asbestos-containing joint…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Lung cancer risk in past asbestos workers a few decades after exposure cessation and prospects for screening
To ascertain whether the current risk of lung cancer in former asbestos workers was higher than in the general population, 1,557 past asbestos workers were recruited during statutory health examinations (from 2000 onward) and followed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Environmental and Occupational Exposure to Asbestos as a Result of Consumption and Use in Poland
This study combined existing data sources to describe asbestos exposure, at work and in the general environment, across Poland's counties. The authors used records of asbestos imports and manufacturing plants, an earlier estimate of asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Antioxidant vitamin and mineral supplements for preventing age-related macular degeneration
This Cochrane review of randomised controlled trials asked whether antioxidant vitamin or mineral supplements prevent age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the general population. It included five trials with 76,756 people in Australia, Finland and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Jejunal Perforation by Metastasis of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
This Spanish-language letter to the editor, by authors from the surgery department of Hospital General Universitario Santa Lucía in Cartagena, Spain, described one patient. The patient was a 67-year-old man with malignant pleural…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · November 2, 2018
Fagot v. Dow Chemical Company (2018)
…employers, contractors and premises owners, claiming he developed mesothelioma from asbestos exposure while working as a pipefitter/welder. Turner was a general contractor at Honeywell's Geismar, Louisiana facility. Fagot settled his claims against Honeywell. Honeywell…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · August 13, 2018
Aston v. Algoma Hardwoods, Inc. (2018)
…dismissed the claims against Dykes. After Daimler, a corporation is subject to general jurisdiction only where it is at home (place of incorporation or principal place of business), and registration to do business in New York…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · March 24, 2017
Matter of Diegelman v. City of Buffalo (2017)
…claimants James R. Diegelman and others to serve a late notice of claim on the City of Buffalo and the other respondents, who lost the appeal. Under General Municipal Law § 50-e (5), a court weighs…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri · April 21, 2017
MacCormack v. the Adel Wiggins Group (2017)
…on reconsideration, found it lacked general or specific personal jurisdiction over CBS in Missouri, a loss for the plaintiffs. Missouri's foreign corporation registration statute does not constitute consent to general personal jurisdiction, per State ex…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · May 24, 2010
Larson v. Georgia Pacific (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation, 2010)
The court denied all four Daubert motions, allowing plaintiffs' causation experts (Brody, limited to general causation, and Legier), defense industrial hygienist Dyson's dose reconstruction testimony, and defendants' causation experts to testify. Expert testimony is admissible…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 14, 2019
Mettias v. The Pep Boys Manny, Moe & Jack of California (Laosd Asbestos Cases, 2019)
…refusal to give general negligence instructions and the misstatements in reading the instructions caused no prejudicial error. A party is entitled to instructions on every theory supported by substantial evidence, but not to general negligence instructions…
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Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · September 14, 2012
John Crane, Inc. v. Hardick (2012)
…against John Crane, Inc., while the $1.15 million loss of society award stayed vacated. In a general maritime survival action based on a seaman's death, courts look to the Jones Act, so the decedent…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · August 20, 2019
Rosen v. Genuine Parts Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…against them for lack of personal jurisdiction, and severed and dismissed them. A corporation is subject to general jurisdiction where it is incorporated or has its principal place of business, and specific jurisdiction under CPLR 302…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 6, 2019
Rothlein v. Imerys Talc America (Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…of the remaining claims against Imerys, so the plaintiffs kept those claims. General jurisdiction over a corporation exists only where it is incorporated or has its principal place of business. A corporation that buys another's…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · July 31, 2018
Crozier v. Johnson & Johnson (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2018)
…complaint and cross-claims for lack of personal jurisdiction, and denied jurisdictional discovery. New York courts lacked general jurisdiction over corporations not incorporated or headquartered in New York, and lacked specific jurisdiction under CPLR 302(a…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 14, 2019
Linsky v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…cross-claims, finding fact issues on general and specific causation. A defendant cannot win summary judgment by pointing to gaps in plaintiff's proof and must show its product did not contribute to the illness. Conflicting…