21 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 29, 2021
Dempster v. Lamorak Insurance Co. (2021)
…court denied General Electric's motion for summary judgment and reconsideration, finding disputed fact issues about whether the 1991 release covered future lung cancer and wrongful death claims, so the plaintiffs' claims against General Electric continue…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · August 26, 2020
Dempster v. Lamorak Insurance Co. (2020)
The family of Callen Dempster sued Avondale shipyard, its officers' insurers and other companies. Mr. Dempster worked at Avondale from 1962 to 1994 and developed asbestos-related lung cancer. He died in 2018. In the early 1990s, while he had…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of California · April 5, 2024 · in the opinion
Speck v. CBS Corporation (2024)
…Speck was to any work done on or around a General Electric product or product of another defendant\[,\]" and has "no idea" about the quantity of asbestos fibers to which Speck may have been exposed by…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · November 10, 2023 · in the opinion
Petro v. Aerco Intl., Inc. (2023)
…COMPANY, AND PEERLESS PUMP COMPANY, FORT KENT HOLDINGS, INC., F.K/A DUNHAM BUSH, FOSTER WHEELER LLC, GARDNER DENVER, INC, GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, GOULDS PUMPS, INC, GRINNELL LLC, HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL, INC., F/K/A ALLIED SIGNAL…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · December 6, 2023 · in the opinion
McLaughlin v. Air & Liquid Sys. Corp. (2023)
…PUMP, PEERLESS PUMP AND NORTHERN PUMP BUSINESSES, FOSTER WHEELER ENERGY CORRPORATION, GARDNER DENVER, INC., GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, GEORGE A. FULLER COMPANY, THE GERARD PACKING & BELTING CORP., GEROSA INCORPORATED, GOODYEAR CANADA INC., THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY…
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Court case · Kentucky Supreme Court · June 15, 2023 · in the opinion
Letcher County Board OF Education v. Hall (2023)
…proximate result of negligence on the part of the Commonwealth...." KRS 49.020(5). His workers' compensation claim therefore does not fall within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Board of Claims. In General Electric Co. v…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Maryland · March 2, 2020 · in the opinion
In re RailWORKS Corporation (2020)
…their respective positions. The parties also do not dispute certain key material facts, including when Mr. Reibie worked as an electrician and allegedly was exposed to asbestos, when Mr. Reibie was diagnosed with cancer, and that…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Maryland · August 8, 2020 · in the opinion
In re RailWORKS Corporation (2020)
…their respective positions. The parties also do not dispute certain key material facts, including when Mr. Reibie worked as an electrician and allegedly was exposed to asbestos, when Mr. Reibie was diagnosed with cancer, and that…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · June 21, 2021 · in the opinion
Benavidez v. Fluor Corp. (2021)
…fact. Benavidez testified at his March 2018 deposition that during his first job at the Anheuser-Busch facility, Fluor employed electricians working at the site. Benavidez said he had "no idea" who employed the pipefitters. He…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Awareness, knowledge and training gaps regarding asbestos among General Practitioners: a pilot study
General Practitioners (GPs) have good knowledge of health status and sociocultural backgrounds of their patients, thus could be decisive in early detection of cases of asbestos-related diseases (ARDs). In this cross-sectional pilot study, we…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
The Brazilian System for Monitoring Workers and General Population Exposed to Asbestos: Development, Challenges, and Opportunities for Workers' Health Surveillance
…especially in lower-income countries. This paper aims to present the recently developed Brazilian system for monitoring workers and general population exposed to asbestos (Datamianto), and to discuss the main challenges and opportunities for workers' health…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
The asbestos-asbestosis exposure-response relationship: a cohort study of the general working population
…observed increasing risk with increasing cumulative exposure in the inception population. This study found exposure-response relations between cumulative asbestos exposure and incident asbestosis in the Danish general working population with mainly low-level exposed occupations…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Heterozygous germline BLM mutations increase susceptibility to asbestos and mesothelioma
…Therefore, 7 of 155 apparently unrelated mesothelioma patients carried BLM+/- mutations, significantly higher (P = 6.7E-10) than the expected frequency in a general, unrelated population from the gnomAD database, and 2 of 7 carried…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
Asbestos and disease - a public health success story?
…Swedish study showed that the general ban and other measures have decreased the risk of malignancies due to occupational exposure. The effect of the bans on adverse effects in the general population has yet to be…
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Court case · West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals · June 5, 2024 · in the opinion
Murphy v. ST. Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc. (2024)
…occupational pneumoconiosis, our sister state of Kentucky has instructed that: The legislature has labeled the presumptions "rebuttable." It is therefore clear that the legislature intended the general rules applicable to rebuttable presumptions to apply. Such presumptions…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of California · September 21, 2022 · in the opinion
Darden v. Western Asbestos Settlement Trust (In re Western Asbestos Settlement Trust, 2022)
…named in a release to be included in the release. "\[T\]o obtain summary judgment on the ground that a general release has discharged him from liability, a third party to the release agreement must affirmatively…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · February 20, 2024 · in the opinion
Wilson v. Ham (2024)
…Warden Fleischman and Sheriff Smith are responsible because they have not prevented the problems at the jail despite his grievance complaints. An inmates "challenge to a condition of confinement is a challenge to \general conditions, practices…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · August 22, 2023 · in the opinion
Vitcavich v. Owens Corning/fibreboard Asbestos Personal Injury Trust (2023)
…Finally, the Bankruptcy Code does not preclude all tort litigation under these circumstances, as even under a general bar to litigation a channeling injunction may still "expressly allow\[\]" for specific legal actions. 11 U.S.C…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · February 27, 2024 · in the opinion
Burford v. Howmet Aerospace, Inc. (2024)
…In the second approach, "\[t\]he finder of fact is asked to infer that because the risk is demonstrably greater in the general population due to exposure to the substance, the claimant's injury was more…
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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…