14 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · April 27, 2021 · in the opinion
Connor v. Covil Corporation (2021)
…EMERSON ELECTRIC COMPANY; FLOWSERVE US, INC., individually and as successor to BYRON JACKSON PUMP COMPANY; FLUOR CONSTRUCTORS INTERNATIONAL, f/k/a Fluor Corporation; FLUOR CONSTRUCTORS INTERNATIONAL, INCORPORATED; FLUOR DANIEL SERVICES CORPORATION; FLUOR ENTERPRISES, INC.; GENERAL ELECTRIC…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maine · June 19, 2020 · in the opinion
Coffin v. Ametek, Inc. (2020)
…(ECF No. 77.) For the reasons set forth below, this motion is DENIED. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Victor Coffin served as an aviation electrician in the U.S. Navy from January 1968 to September 1971, as a machinist…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maine · September 16, 2020 · in the opinion
Coffin v. Ametek, Inc. (2020)
…86-89). For the reasons set forth below, I DENY these motions. BACKGROUND Plaintiff Victor Coffin served as an aviation electrician in the U.S. Navy from January 1968 to September 1971, as a machinist for…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maine · January 25, 2021
Coffin v. Ametek, Inc. (2021)
…turns on actual or constructive notice and is ordinarily a jury question; a railroad's general knowledge of asbestos hazards and disputed evidence of escaping dust prevent summary judgment on foreseeability. Causation; Employer and Contractor Liability…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas · April 17, 2023
Gray v. BNSF Railway Company (2023)
…failed under both the Sixth Circuit's Babbitt and the Third Circuit's Wicker tests, and the 2017 release was ineffective as an overbroad general release. FELA Railroad Claims; Settlements and Releases bridge and building carpenter
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Montana · August 9, 2023 · in the opinion
Wells v. BNSF Railway Company (2023)
…to \[the Robinson defendants'\] unreasonably dangerous asbestos contaminated products, which \[the Robinson defendants\] wrongfully placed in the stream of commerce for use and consumption by the general public"; 2) the Robinson defendants "knew that extended exposure…
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Court case · Georgia Court of Appeals · November 3, 2023 · in the opinion
Bowers v. CSX Transportation, Inc. (2023)
…917 F.2d at 964 (finding speculative testimony inadmissible). Moreover, Blickenstaff's opinion based on these studies often conflated general and specific causation. He stated that it was unnecessary to connect Luther's specific jobs to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Montana · July 11, 2024 · in the opinion
Wells v. BNSF Ry. Co. (2024)
…that alleged that BNSF engaged in an abnormally dangerous activity through its handling of asbestos in Libby, Montana, represent a law of general applicability that does not unreasonably interfere with interstate commerce. See BNSF Ry. Co.…
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Court case · Ohio Court of Appeals · December 2, 2022 · in the opinion
Nuckols v. Consol. Rail Corp. (2022)
…Decedent reasonably did not know the purpose of the questioning. Perhaps Decedent could only have reasonably been expected to know of general impacts of the exposure to his health, but not that it could cause cancer…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · March 23, 2023 · in the opinion
Anderson v. Consolidated Rail Corporation (2023)
…used for choosing those studies. Appellee's Brief at 20. According to Conrail, Nothing in \[Dr.\] Levin's report suggested that he employed any methodology to opine on general causation, much less a generally accepted one…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · April 3, 2020 · in the opinion
Little v. the Budd Company, Inc. (2020)
…2002). This is true whether the newly raised argument is "a bald-faced new issue or a new theory on appeal that falls under the same general category as an argument presented at trial." Id. (quotations…
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Blog · 2023
Ohio Train Disaster and the Asbestos Story
…media drawing attention to the potential for health-related consequences. Similarly, the tobacco industry is required to place a Surgeon General’s warning on product labeling. Yet, still more can be done. There are also legal…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska · October 22, 2020 · in the opinion
Butler v. Union Pacific R. Co. (2020)
…cancer which does not presently exist but which may develop in the future. This release includes any future damages, general or specific, that BUTLER may incur in an attempt to alleviate or cure any illness, disease…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 25, 2022 · in the opinion
Hahn v. New York Air Brake LLC (2022)
…focus is on the facts that the plaintiff knew, not on whether the plaintiff subjectively knew she had a cause of action based on those facts. (General Motors Corp. v. Superior Court (1996) 48 Cal.App…