825 results for “General Electric”, page 15 of 42
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Commentary: SARS-CoV-2 and Asbestos Exposure: Can Our Experience With Mesothelioma Patients Help Us Understand the Psychological Consequences of COVID-19 and Develop Interventions?
This was a general commentary, an opinion piece, responding to a 2020 article by Granieri and colleagues that had compared COVID-19 with malignant mesothelioma (MM). It reported no new data and studied no people. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Malignant pleural mesothelioma in a patient with pneumothorax: A cumbersome subtype both clinically and pathologically
This case report from Takatsuki General Hospital, Japan, described one patient whose malignant pleural mesothelioma the authors found very hard to diagnose. A 62-year-old woman had undergone surgery for recurrent pneumothorax (collapsed lung) on…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Mediastinal and pleuropulmonary myeloid sarcoma with HBME1 and podoplanin expression. A diagnostic pitfall
This letter to the editor reported a single case: a 60-year-old man with general symptoms, shortness of breath and fluid around the lung (pleural effusion). A scan showed an 11 cm mass in the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Usefulness of methylthioadenosine phosphorylase and BRCA-associated protein 1 immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma in effusion cytology specimens
This retrospective study, using cases from Vancouver General Hospital in Canada and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, asked whether a laboratory stain for a protein called MTAP helps tell malignant mesothelioma apart from harmless (reactive…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Synchronous Jejunal Sarcomatoid Carcinoma and Incidentally Associated Localized Peritoneal Malignant Mesothelioma
This case report described one 67-year-old Japanese man treated at Shimada General Medical Center in Japan. He had a history of asbestos exposure in plumbing work 30 years earlier. The article did not name…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · June 28, 2021
Klick v. Asbestos Corporation, Ltd. (2021)
The court granted Boeing's motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, finding no general or specific jurisdiction over Boeing in New Jersey, denied jurisdictional discovery, and declined to transfer the claims, so Boeing won…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina · February 27, 2020
Hill v. Mallinckrodt LLC (2020)
The district court denied Mallinckrodt's Rule 12(b)(7) motion to dismiss for failure to join the settled general contractors, so the executor's wrongful-death suit proceeds. A party is not a required party…
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Court case · Louisiana Supreme Court · October 20, 2023
Pete v. Boland Marine and Manufacturing Company, LLC (2023)
…in general damages against Ports America, reduced that award to $5,000,000, and entered total judgment of $5,551,020.70 for Pete, affirming the rest. An appellate court must consider relevant prior general damage…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · July 6, 2022
Zicklin v. Bergdorf Goodman Inc. (2022)
The trial court denied Colgate-Palmolive's motion for summary judgment because conflicting expert opinions on general and specific causation raised fact issues; the plaintiff prevailed on the motion. Conflicting expert opinions on whether the product…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · April 27, 2020
In re Johnson & Johnson Talcum Powder Products (2020)
The court granted in part and denied in part Johnson & Johnson's motions to exclude plaintiffs' experts Saed, Longo and the general-causation experts, and denied plaintiffs' motions to exclude defense experts Diette, Saenz and Neel…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · September 27, 2024
Craft v. Eagle, Inc. (2024)
The Louisiana Fourth Circuit granted Climmie Craft's writ application, reversed the trial court's rulings limiting her industrial hygiene expert Kenneth Garza to general opinions, and remanded, ruling against the defendants (Ports America Gulfport, Crowley…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 6, 2020
Koenig v. Pneumo Abex (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…it, and denied the plaintiffs' cross-motion for jurisdictional discovery. New York courts lacked general or specific personal jurisdiction over a non-New York defendant where the plaintiff's exposure and injury occurred in Massachusetts, and…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · April 14, 2020
Graul v. Tecumseh Prods. Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…plaintiffs' complaint and all cross-claims against Tecumseh; the plaintiffs lost as to Tecumseh. New York courts lacked general jurisdiction over a corporation incorporated and headquartered in Michigan, and lacked specific jurisdiction under CPLR 302(a…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 25, 2020
Lamenta v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…the plaintiffs' claims and all crossclaims against it, because the plaintiffs did not raise a fact issue on general or specific causation. In a toxic tort case, expert opinion must show both that the toxin can…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 25, 2020
Montell v. Viking Pump (Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…the complaint and cross-claims against it, and denied plaintiff's cross-motion for jurisdictional discovery. New York courts lacked general jurisdiction over a corporation not incorporated or headquartered there, and lacked specific jurisdiction under CPLR…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 4, 2020
Gaddy v. Taylor Seidenbach, Inc. (2020)
…granted Ethyl Corporation's motion for remittitur, cutting the verdict to $3,250,661.45 ($3,000,000 general damages plus medical expenses) unless Plaintiffs elect a new trial, and denied Ethyl's new-trial and…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 25, 2021
Nelson v. 3M Co. (2021)
…of personal jurisdiction, dismissing the complaint against it and continuing the action against the remaining defendants. A New York court lacks general jurisdiction over a corporation not incorporated or headquartered in New York, and specific jurisdiction…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 29, 2022
Cortez v. Lamorak Insurance Company (2022)
…Forman's testimony on insulation and general Navy requirements but allowing his testimony on shipyard asbestos-safety requirements relevant to the sophisticated-purchaser defense. An expert's testimony is admissible if relevant to a pending issue…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · January 20, 2021
Sweikhart v. Akebono Brake Industry Co. (2021)
…subsidiary's agent. Under California law, a foreign corporation may be served through its "general manager in this state," which includes its wholly-owned domestic subsidiary's agent for service, so Hague Convention procedures need not…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of California · March 30, 2021
Toy v. Armstrong Int'l (In re Asbestos, 2021)
…motion to exclude plaintiffs' expert Dr. Brody (he may give general but not specific causation testimony) and denied Warren Pumps' and Honeywell's motion to exclude "every exposure" testimony, without prejudice to renewed objections at trial…