38 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · March 17, 2011 · in the opinion
Kiser v. AW Chesterton Co. (2011)
…Plaintiff argues that either Virginia's General Assembly was aware of what Plaintiff sees as a national trend in favor of adoption of the separate disease rule and embodied this trend when it amended Virginia's…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · March 16, 2011
Kiser v. AW Chesterton Co. (2011)
Phyllis Kiser, as executor of her husband Orvin Kiser, Sr.'s estate, brought a wrongful death suit in October 2010 against a group of companies whose asbestos-containing products were alleged to have caused his mesothelioma. He was diagnosed with…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin · January 22, 2016 · in the opinion
Ahnert v. Employers Insurance Company OF Wausau (2016)
…products. (Rhoades Aff., Ex. E at 64, 68-90.) The Oak Creek outage was an overhaul of a General Electric fossil fuel turbine, which required removal and reinstallation of insulation, including asbestos blankets, asbestos sheets, and…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin · January 6, 2016 · in the opinion
Ahnert v. Employers Insurance Company OF Wausau (2016)
…69" for "at least four months." (Pl.'s Ex. 4 at 11-14.)\[2\] The work was an overhaul of a General Electric fossil fuel turbine which required removal and reinstallation of insulation, including asbestos blankets…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · December 19, 2016 · in the opinion
Vesper v. 3M Company (2016)
…MATTHEW P. KESSLER, MCGIVNEY & KLUGER PC. FOSTER WHEELER, LLC, Defendant, represented by CHRISTOPHER J. KEALE, SEDGWICK LLP. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant, represented by CHRISTOPHER J. KEALE, SEDGWICK LLP & DAVID SCHUYLER BLOW, SEDGWICK LLP. GEORGIA-PACIFIC, LLC…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin · May 15, 2017 · in the opinion
Ahnert v. Employers Insurance Company OF Wausau (2017)
…shows is a genuine dispute as to this material fact. Evidence presented to the MDL court indicated that by the 1930s or 1940s "occupational health and the general medical literature documented the hazard of asbestos inhalation…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin · January 7, 2016 · in the opinion
Ahnert v. Employers Insurance Company OF Wausau (2016)
…of Daniel Ahnert, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. EMPLOYERS INSURANCE COMPANY OF WAUSAU, PABST BREWING COMPANY, SPRINKMANN SONS CORPORATION, WISCONSIN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, Defendants. Case No. 13-C-1456. January 7, 2016. United States District Court, E.D…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 5, 2018
Matter of Adesso v. AO Smith Water Prods. Co. (2018)
…Brooklyn Navy Yard Brooklyn 1953-1957; boilermaker, truck mechanic, and general helper Thatcher Glass Elmira 1957-1996; fireman USS Des Moines 1957-1961; boiler maintenance mechanic Happauge School District 1976-1982; welder USS Mindoro 1948-1952…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin · January 5, 2016 · in the opinion
Ahnert v. Employers Insurance Company OF Wausau (2016)
…general report at 21-22.) Sheet packings that were used to make certain gaskets contain 30-50% asbestos. (Pl.'s Ex. 7, general report at 25.) James Herian, a former Wisconsin Electric Power Company (WEPCO) rigger…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York · January 9, 2014 · in the opinion
Gates v. Smith Water Products Co. (2014)
…BURNHAM CORPORATION; CBS CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation formerly known as Viacom, Inc., successor-by-merger to CBS Corporation, a Pennsylvania Corporation formerly known as Westinghouse Electric Corporation; CERTAIN TEED CORPORATION; CLEAVER BROOKS COMPANY, INC.; CRANE CO.;…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · December 13, 2017 · in the opinion
Brooks v. AIR & LIQUID SYSTEMS CORPORATION (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2017)
…to asbestos in the following manner: Ronald Brooks: (Living with Lung Cancer) Exposed to Asbestos while working as a construction worker, fireman, and during service as electrician's mate in the U.S. Navy, (1974-1989)…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 22, 2019 · in the opinion
Christy v. A.O. Smith Water Prods. Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…Mass toxic tort cases, including asbestos cases, may be consolidated if they meet the requirements of the general rule governing consolidation of cases (In re Asbestos Litigation, 173 F.R.D.81, 38 Fed.R.Serv…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 18, 2019 · in the opinion
ALBIN v. AJAX MAGNETHERMIC CORPORATION (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…Mass toxic tort cases, including asbestos cases, may be consolidated if they meet the requirements of the general rule governing consolidation of cases (In re Asbestos Litigation, 173 F.R.D.81, 38 Fed.R.Serv…
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Court case · Ohio Court of Appeals · November 30, 2015
Bryant v. General Motors Corp. (2015)
…for the jury, and an expert may rely on assumed facts that independent evidence supports. Causation; Expert Testimony; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: General Motors Defiance foundry (GM Powertrain); GM Powertrain Division, Defiance facility, Defiance core…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Potential asbestos exposure among patients with primary lung cancer in Japan
…for workers, the study subjects may contain a higher proportion of workers than the general population. Pleural plaques were identified in 12.8% of subjects (15.8% in males and 4.9% in females), consisting exclusively…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
A retrospective study of chest pain in benign asbestos pleural disease
…recognized, particularly in those with folded atelectasis and is not restricted to litigants. Improved recognition of this entity is needed along with practical management guidelines for the general practitioner. Further studies are envisaged by the authors.
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · August 14, 2017
Duty v. Trz Realty, LLC (2017)
…saying asbestos causes colon cancer. After a hearing, the trial court found he was not qualified on general or specific causation, mainly because he was not an epidemiologist or colorectal specialist. Plaintiffs then conceded they lacked…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Flex-rigid pleuroscopy under local anesthesia in patients with dry pleural dissemination on radiography
…mesothelioma in 2 and chronic inflammation in 3. The remaining patient was suspected of malignant pleural mesothelioma and was diagnosed with it after a second biopsy under general anesthesia. Two dry-group patients had minor complications…
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Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · January 10, 2013
Kiser v. AW Chesterton Co. (2013)
…accrued at the first diagnosis, asbestosis, not the later mesothelioma diagnosis. The court said any change must come from the General Assembly. Two justices dissented. They would have treated mesothelioma as a separate cause of action.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Pleural abnormalities in the Framingham Heart Study: prevalence and CT image features
The prevalence of pleural abnormalities in the general population is an epidemiologically important index of asbestos exposure, which has not been investigated since a radiography-based study in 1980. We examined 2633 chest CT scans (mean…