825 results for “General Electric”, page 20 of 42
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Medical study · Medical research · 2025
Marble Waste Dump Yard in Rajasthan, India Revealed as a Potential Asbestos Exposure Hazard
…103,000,000 per gram. The authors concluded that this plausibly demonstrates that the marble industry poses an occupational and environmental hazard to workers, local inhabitants and the general public by exposing them to asbestos dust.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Asbestos, Pleural Plaques, and Lung Cancer: Untangling the Relationships
…depends on precise exposure estimates. The author concluded that people with known moderate to heavy exposure should not be denied CT screening because they lack plaques. In general populations, the author wrote, bilateral plaques should prompt…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Inhalation unit risk (IUR) of asbestos based on available science
…chrysotile's value was 0.026, about 65 times lower than crocidolite's. The authors stated that the general US EPA asbestos value, 0.23, would overestimate risk for Libby amphibole and chrysotile and dramatically underestimate…
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Court case · South Carolina Court of Appeals · August 3, 2022 · in the opinion
Edwards v. Scapa Waycross, Inc. (2022)
…814 (D.S.C. 2011)). "General causation \is generally not an issue in asbestos litigation' due to the parties' acknowledgment that exposure to asbestos causes mesothelioma." Id. at 625, 869 S.E.2d at 829 (quoting…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 7, 2022 · in the opinion
Adams v. Eagle, Inc. (2022)
"General causation is whether a substance is capable of causing a particular injury or condition in the general population, while specific causation is whether a substance caused a particular individual's injury."\[61\] Because of the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · July 25, 2021 · in the opinion
In re Johnson & Johnson Talcum Powder Products Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation (2021)
In general, however, a party must show more than a "remote prospect, an inchoate possibility, or a likely chance of litigation." Id. at 183 (citations and quotation marks omitted). "\[A\] party must show that there existed…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · July 30, 2020 · in the opinion
Pruitt v. Amdura (In re Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
Pruitt perform general maintenance on these pumps every one to two months, which required removing and replacing gaskets and packing material. (Id.) Mr. Dumas further testified that Mr. Pruitt's maintenance work took two to three…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana · August 9, 2021 · in the opinion
Hsieh v. Apache Deepwater, LLC (2021)
2008) (citation omitted) ("When faced with general objections, the applicability of which to specific document requests is not explained further, this Court will not raise objections for the responding party, but instead will overrule the responding…
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Court case · Oklahoma Supreme Court · October 25, 2022 · in the opinion
Galier v. Murco Wall Products, Inc. (2022)
¶15 A state court may exercise general jurisdiction when a defendant's "affiliations with the State are so \continuous and systematic' as to render them essentially at home in the forum State." Goodyear Dunlop Tires, 564…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Quantitative Assessment of Asbestos Fibers in Normal and Pathological Pleural Tissue-A Scoping Review
pleural mesothelioma is a rare cancer in the general population, but it is more common in subjects occupationally exposed to asbestos. Studies with asbestos fiber quantification in pleural tissue are scarce: for this reason, we aimed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Dextrose-Containing Carrier Solution for Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy: Increased Intraoperative Hyperglycemia and Postoperative Complications
Intraoperative hyperglycemia is associated with infectious complications in general surgery patients. This study aimed to determine if the use of lactated Ringer's (LR) carrier solution during hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) would lower the incidence of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Comparative carcinogenicity study of a thick, straight-type and a thin, tangled-type multi-walled carbon nanotube administered by intra-tracheal instillation in the rat
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes can be divided into two general subtypes: tangled and straight. MWCNT-N (60 nm in diameter) and MWCNT-7 (80-90 nm in diameter) are straight-type MWCNTs, and similarly to asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Respirable inorganic fibers dispersed in air and settled in human lung samples: Assessment of their nature, source, and concentration in a NW Italy large city
The present investigation represents a new approach useful to evaluate the general population risk correlated with environmental exposure to air dispersed inorganic fibers. The used method is based on the evaluation of the respirable inorganic fibers…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · August 24, 2020 · in the opinion
Finch v. Covil Corporation (2020)
As we have explained: \[J\]ury instructions articulate general principles of law that decide cases. Of course appellate opinions may guide a district judge's discretion in formulating jury instructions, or even bear upon the formation…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · February 19, 2020 · in the opinion
Roverano v. John Crane, Inc. (2020)
Indeed, I believe that if the General Assembly had intended to do the opposite within the contours of a "Fair Share Act" — i.e., to maintain a liability allocation regime for strict liability cases that was…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina · April 30, 2021 · in the opinion
Walls v. Ford Motor Company (2021)
In response, CRA asserted the following general objections: CRA objects to the Notice to the extent that its definitions are ambiguous, vague, unduly burdensome, harassing, overly broad, and/or impose any burden beyond the discovery obligations…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
COVID-19 in patients with thoracic malignancies (TERAVOLT): first results of an international, registry-based, cohort study
Early reports on patients with cancer and COVID-19 have suggested a high mortality rate compared with the general population. Patients with thoracic malignancies are thought to be particularly susceptible to COVID-19 given their older…
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Court case · Tennessee Supreme Court · January 4, 2021 · in the opinion
Coffman v. Armstrong International, Inc. (2021)
There the canon avoids not contradiction but the superfluity of a specific provision that is swallowed by the general one, "violat\[ing\] the cardinal rule that, if possible, effect shall be given to every clause and…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 22, 2023 · in the opinion
Ragusa v. Louisiana Guaranty Insurance Association (2023)
However, Avondale argues that Plaintiff's self-serving testimony and this general policy cannot be enough to subject it to liability for negligence (Rec. Doc. 568, at 3). Avondale states that this evidence "does not translate…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · March 16, 2020 · in the opinion
Clevenger v. John Crane, Inc. (2020)
Marchevsky's answered: So basically as we put in the guidelines, in general, it's difficult to tell a sarcoma mesothelioma from other tumors, which is why we went through the trouble of putting together the…