16 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · May 20, 2015
Meyers v. Chesterton (2015)
Debra Meyers and Ronald Palermo, adult children of Ronald Dummitt, sued in Louisiana state court for his wrongful death from malignant mesothelioma. Dummitt worked as a Navy boiler technician from 1960 to 1988 on naval vessels, and the plaintiffs…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · June 18, 2015
Meyers v. Chesterton (2015)
Debra Meyers and Ronald Palermo sued in Louisiana state court, alleging their father, Ronald Dummitt, died of malignant mesothelioma. He worked as a Navy boiler technician from 1960 to 1988 on naval vessels, and the plaintiffs allege he was exposed…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · May 3, 2013
Ambruso v. Goulds Pumps (Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2013)
…D. Roosevelt electrical engineer 1950s-1980s; shipfitter and seaman in the United States Navy Brooklyn Navy Yard Brooklyn 1940s; shipfitter and seaman in the United States Navy USS Chicago 1940s; insulator 1950s-1990s; general laborer, bus…
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Court case · Mississippi Supreme Court · October 14, 2010
Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC v. Pittman (2010)
Lonnie Pittman was named as a plaintiff in a December 2002 asbestos suit against many companies. Defendants later learned he had died in March 2001, almost two years before the suit was filed. His widow, Mary Pittman, was substituted as plaintiff…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · February 24, 2000 · in the opinion
Vasura v. Acands (2000)
…448, 451 (9th Cir.1994). Others have held that the relevant time period for ascertaining foreign state status is that in which the conduct at issue took place. See General Electric Capital Corp. v. Grossman, 991…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · April 3, 1997 · in the opinion
Anchor Packing Co. v. Grimshaw (1997)
…3\] (Emphasis added). In addition, the legislative history of C.J. § 11-108 indicates that the General Assembly intended that the cap apply broadly, as opposed to only malpractice claims. In January 1986, Senate Bill No…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 4, 2008
Nostrom v. Chesterton (2008)
…Nostrom plaintiffs' Labor Law 241(6) claims against it. In this Department, the general air-contaminant regulations in section 12 of the Industrial Code do not support Labor Law 241(6) liability. Even if they applied…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · January 7, 1998 · in the opinion
ACandS v. Abate (1998)
The Western Electric plant was comprised of several buildings and was approximately three miles long and one-and-one-quarter miles deep. Morrow indicated that he worked primarily in the wire insulation building until he became…
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Court case · Georgia Court of Appeals · March 14, 2001
Hoffman v. AC&S, Inc. (2001)
…site at some unspecified time during the 1960s is insufficient. An expert's general opinion that workers were exposed to asbestos products does not supply the missing link to a particular defendant. Product Identification; Expert Testimony…
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Court case · Indiana Court of Appeals · March 17, 1999
Novicki v. Rapid-American Corp. (1999)
…and Rapid-American conceded it did not. The case therefore fell under section 5, the general product liability limitation and repose provision. Because the parties had not briefed section 5, the court remanded for further argument…
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Court case · Texas Supreme Court · November 30, 2000 · in the opinion
Pustejovsky v. Rapid-American Corp. (2000)
…American argues that Pustejovsky's lack of knowledge of the scope of his damages from his exposure to asbestos does not affect the accrual of his cause of action. Following these general rules, Rapid American contends…
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Court case · Indiana Court of Appeals · November 6, 2001 · in the opinion
Allied Signal, Inc. v. Herring (2001)
…[\1036] Moreover, section 2 was enacted to extend the general limitations period in express recognition of the long latency period associated with asbestos-related diseases and illnesses. Extending the limitations period only for the very few…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · January 17, 2001 · in the opinion
Crooks v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. (2001)
…principle of stare decisis, the civil law statutes and codes are usually drafted in more general terms than common-law statutes and thus depend more on judges to render them concrete through judicial interpretation. Id. The…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit · September 28, 2005 · in the opinion
Lindstrom v. AC Product Liability Trust (2005)
…a plaintiff is no longer required to show substantial exposure. The Stark opinion and general logic may suggest that, where an expert witness can testify unequivocally that a defendant's product was the source of the…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · October 3, 2003 · in the opinion
Hughes v. Olin Corporation (2003)
…225] The doctrine of contra non valentem agere nulla currit praescriptio acts as an exception to the general rules of prescription by suspending the running of prescription when the circumstances of the case fall into one…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · May 29, 1997 · in the opinion
Mtr. OF Nyc Asbestos Litig. (1997)
…attributed to the settling defendants would have been increased and that of Carey correspondingly decreased. Such a result would clearly be damaging to the plaintiffs by reason of the application of General Obligations Law § 15-108…