24 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
William Bell served in the Navy in the 1960s as an engineman, machinery repairman and machinist mate and was exposed to asbestos, mostly on four ships. He was later diagnosed with mesothelioma in Louisiana in 2015 and died. His brother John Bell, a…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
…judgment to General Electric, Crane, Air & Liquid Systems (Buffalo), Aurora Pump, Atwood & Morrill, CBS, IMO Industries and Warren Pumps. Under the court's narrowed bare metal defense, a component maker can be liable under general maritime…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
…leaving in place its exclusion of their experts' specific causation opinions, and clarified what the experts may say at trial. Under general maritime law, an expert's specific causation opinion in a multi-defendant mesothelioma case…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
…Graham and Dr. Taragin may give general causation testimony but not specific causation opinions that the defendants' products did not cause Mr. Bell's mesothelioma. A "one-size-fits-all" specific causation opinion that draws no…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 13, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
William Bell served in the U.S. Navy in the 1960s as an engineman, machinery repairman and machinist mate and was regularly exposed to asbestos. Most exposure was on four ships, where maritime law was already settled as governing. He also claimed…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
…DOHSA does not bar a survival action, which proceeds under general maritime law. Under general maritime law a seaman's survivors may recover only pecuniary losses, but pre-death pain and suffering is treated as pecuniary…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 12, 2016
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2016)
William Bell and other plaintiffs sued Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. and a number of other companies in federal court in Louisiana. Mr. Bell died of mesothelioma during the case. Before the court was the defendants' motion to strike witnesses from the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 6, 2016
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2016)
…denied in part the defendants' motions in limine: it excluded the plaintiffs' experts' specific causation opinions as unreliable but allowed them to testify on Mr. Bell's mesothelioma and general causation, and refused to strike Dr…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 11, 2016
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2016)
William C. Bell and other plaintiffs sued Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. and a group of pump and valve companies in federal court in Louisiana. The case concerns asbestos exposure and mesothelioma; the opinion refers to Mr. Bell's work on a ship and to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 4, 2016
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2016)
William Bell served in the U.S. Navy in the 1960s as an engineman, machinery repairman and machinist mate. The opinion says he was exposed to asbestos on four ships and while training at a Navy facility in Idaho. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · July 18, 2016
Oliver v. Campbell McCORMICK, Inc. (2016)
…1972 to 1978. Campbell-McCormick brought in third-party defendants for contribution, and General Electric removed the case to federal court, relying on the government contractor defense and the federal officer removal statute. Oliver asked the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · November 9, 2021
Data v. AO Smith Corporation (2021)
Darlene Data sued many companies in her own right and as executrix of her husband Michael Data's estate. Mr. Data served in the Navy aboard the USS Newport News from 1969 to 1973. He later worked at Mesta Machine and then at the West Pittsburgh…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 31, 2021 · in the opinion
Esposito v. Abb, Inc. (2021)
…INC., FMC CORPORATION, GARDNER DENVER, INC., GENERAL CABLE CORPORATION, GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, GEROSA, INCORPORATED, GOULD ELECTRONICS, INC., GOULDS PUMPS, LLC, GRAYBAR ELECTRIC COMPANY INC., GRINNELL LLC, ITT LLC, INDIVIDUALLY, DOING BUSINESS AS AND SUCCESSOR TO ITT…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · April 25, 2019 · in the opinion
Deem v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2019)
…SCULLY MANSUKHANI LLP & Trevor J. Mohr, GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI LLP. CBS Corporation, formerly known as Viacom Inc., Foster-Wheeler Energy Corporation & General Electric Company, Defendants, represented by Christopher S. Marks, TANENBAUM KEALE LLP & Erin P…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin · April 12, 2017 · in the opinion
Carroll v. Abb, Inc. (2017)
…motion for summary judgment (dkt. \#253) is DENIED. 3) Plaintiff Patricia Carroll's motion to strike (dkt. \#403) is DENIED AS MOOT. 4) Defendants General Electric Company, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and FMC Corporation are DISMISSED…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · June 9, 2015 · in the opinion
Hockler v. William Powell Company (2015)
…631 \[WD Pa 1987\], the court also cited section 402A in holding that "the dismantling and processing of junk electrical components was not a reasonably foreseeable use of \[General Electric Company's\] product" (id. at 635)…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · May 27, 2022
Hilster v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2022)
…or in plans, without more, is speculation and does not suffice. Causation; Product Identification Worksites: Electric Boat shipyard (General Dynamics); Electric Boat, Groton wife of a pipefitter; laundered his work clothes Electric Boat Groton 1957-1970
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · December 21, 2015
Walton v. OneBeacon Ins. Co. (2015)
…was awarded $163,589.37 in appellate costs. OneBeacon Insurance Company, successor to Powell's insurer General Accident, had paid roughly $655,885 in Powell's defense costs. It intervened and asked to receive the costs…
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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 · Tennessee Court of Appeals · July 22, 2019 · in the opinion
Coffman v. Armstrong International, Inc. (2019)
…the general duty of care includes a duty to warn when the manufacturer "knows or has reason to know" that its product "is or is likely to be dangerous for the use for which it is…