1,126 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 57
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · March 10, 2016
Hubert v. General Electric Company (2016)
The court found Plaintiff Patricia Hubert had not properly pleaded diversity jurisdiction against General Electric and ordered her to file an amended complaint by March 31, 2016; pending motions were denied as moot. A representative of…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · April 3, 2017
Woo v. General Electric Company (2017)
The Court of Appeals reversed the summary judgment dismissal of the Woo Estate's claims against General Electric and remanded for trial, because fact issues existed on GE's duty to warn and on causation. A…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · October 22, 2010
Faddish v. General Electric Co. (2010)
…magistrate panel's finding that a genuine factual dispute existed on product identification, but granted General Electric summary judgment on the government contractor defense, so the plaintiff lost her failure-to-warn claim against GE. The…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · January 29, 2013
Cardaro v. General Electric Co. (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (VI), 2013)
The court denied General Electric's motion for summary judgment, holding the Louisiana statute of repose did not bar the Cardaros' failure-to-warn claims and that a fact question remained, so the Cardaros prevailed on…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · March 19, 2015
Wygant v. General Electric Company (2015)
The Superior Court affirmed the trial court's judgment on the pleadings for General Electric, Hunter Sales and Reading Crane, holding the administratrix's wrongful death action was time-barred. After Neiman struck down Act 152…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · August 9, 2016
Hoffman v. General Electric Company (2016)
The Court of Appeals reversed the superior court's CR 12(b)(6) dismissal of Larry Hoffman's claims against General Electric and Ketchikan Pulp Company and remanded, so Hoffman prevailed on the appeal, although the…
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Court case · Oregon Court of Appeals · February 8, 2012
Portland General Electric Company v. Ebasco Services, Inc. (2012)
…and vacated the supplemental fee judgment in favor of Portland General Electric. A court lacks jurisdiction to enter a default judgment for more than the amount prayed for in the complaint unless the defaulting party had…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of California · April 3, 2014
Whalen v. General Electric Corporation (2014)
The court denied General Dynamics' motion to dismiss the plaintiffs' strict products liability claim and denied its motion to strike the punitive damages prayer as moot, so the Whalens' claims proceeded. Under maritime law, a complaint…
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Court case · Georgia Court of Appeals · March 22, 2010
Adamson v. General Elec. Co. (2010)
…Garlock, CBS/Westinghouse, General Electric and Union Carbide (no proof of exposure to their asbestos products), against the estate's executor. To survive summary judgment, a plaintiff must present evidence that the defendant's asbestos-containing…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · November 17, 2016
Loupe v. Pennsylvania General Insurance Company (2016)
Marie Nell Martinez Tregre sued in Orleans Parish state court. She alleged she developed mesothelioma, diagnosed in April 2015, from asbestos that clung to her husband Lee Tregre's clothing while he worked at Avondale Industries from about 1953 to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 18, 2014
Comardelle v. Pennsylvania General Insurance Company (2014)
Michael Comardelle sued Westinghouse (CBS Corporation), Foster Wheeler, GE and more than a dozen other defendants in Orleans Parish civil court. He alleged that asbestos exposure during his work from 1963 to 1979, including at the Avondale Shipyard,…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · June 2, 2017
Savoie v. Pennsylvania General Insurance Co. (2017)
Joseph Savoie sued in Louisiana state court, alleging he developed mesothelioma from asbestos exposure while working at the Avondale shipyard (now Huntington Ingalls) in various positions from about 1948 to 1996. He said he was exposed daily at the…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · May 18, 2018
Campbell v. Acme Insulations, Inc. (2018)
The appellate court reversed the circuit court's denial of General Electric's motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and remanded with directions to dismiss GE as a defendant, so GE won and the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · September 28, 2011
Vickroy v. AW Chesterton, Inc. (2011)
…rejecting General Electric's federal officer removal for lack of federal subject matter jurisdiction. A removing defendant under the federal officer statute must show it acted under a federal officer's direction and has a colorable…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky · April 12, 2013
Stallings v. Georgia-Pacific Corporation (2013)
…keeping the case in federal court on General Electric's and Crane Company's federal officer removal. A government contractor may remove under the federal officer removal statute if it was acting under a federal agency…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · April 18, 2019
Deem v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2019)
…products made or sold by several companies. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2015 and later died of it. General Electric, Foster Wheeler and Westinghouse (CBS) moved for summary judgment, arguing there was no evidence of…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · July 17, 2019
Bondurant v. 3M Company (2019)
…holding that General Electric and CBS Corporation (Westinghouse) properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute. A boilerplate disclaimer of claims arising from federal officers' acts does not defeat federal officer removal where the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · June 24, 2015
Shearer v. AW Chesterton Company (2015)
The court granted summary judgment to General Electric under the bare metal defense, and granted A.W. Chesterton's and Westinghouse's unopposed motions, against plaintiffs Shearer and his wife. Under maritime law, which governed work…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama · August 30, 2013
Morgan v. Bill Vann Company, Inc. (2013)
The court granted General Electric's motion for summary judgment and dismissed the plaintiff's claims against GE with prejudice, finding the pre-1979 exposure claims time-barred and no sufficient evidence of later exposure to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 23, 2014
Laurent v. City of New Orleans (2014)
…M. Willett, USS Haas and USS Woodson. Laurent sued General Electric (GE) and CBS (formerly Westinghouse), among others, claiming they supplied the Navy with asbestos-containing turbines and equipment and failed to warn of the dangers…