20 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · June 30, 2011
Sublett v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2011)
…finding General Electric had not established federal officer removal jurisdiction. A removing defendant must show the Navy prevented it from complying with state-law warning duties to establish federal officer jurisdiction and the government contractor defense…
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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)
…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, District of Massachusetts · May 4, 2009
Holdren v. Buffalo Pumps, Inc. (2009)
…Foster Wheeler, Viad, General Electric and Elliott Turbo Machinery) removed the case to federal court. They relied on the federal officer removal statute and the federal contractor defense, arguing the Navy would not have allowed asbestos…
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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, Western District of Washington · June 10, 2019
Deem v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2019)
Sherri Deem sued on her own behalf and for the estate of her husband, Thomas Deem, who worked at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard from 1974 to 1981 as an apprentice and journeyman outside machinist. The complaint alleged he was exposed to…
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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 · Louisiana Court of Appeals · April 2, 2004
Roberts v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (2004)
…not know of mesothelioma specifically. It reinstated liability for CertainTeed, Fibreboard and Flintkote, found no error as to Foster Wheeler and General Electric, and removed Gasket Holding. It upheld the damage awards. Exxon owed a virile…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Utah · August 31, 2022 · in the opinion
Hipwell v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (2022)
…17-cv-8361 (AJN), 2021 WL 4226037 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 16, 2021) and DeVries v. General Electric Co., 547 F. Supp. 3d 491 (E.D. Pa. 2021) as cases in which the court determined…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina · December 29, 2014 · in the opinion
Sparkman v. AW Chesterton Company (2014)
…Pa. July 29, 2011) (finding a duty to warn where defendant knew asbestos-containing replacement brakes would be used on its vehicles); Chicano v. General Electric Co., 2004 WL 2250990, at [\6] (E.D. Pa. 2004…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · June 15, 2016 · in the opinion
Rabovsky v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2016)
…Wheeler Energy Corporation, Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC (individually and as successor-in-interest to Garlock, Inc.), General Electric Company, Goulds Pumps, Inc., The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company d/b/a A&P Supermarkets, Honeywell International…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Utah · August 31, 2022 · in the opinion
Hipwell v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (2022)
…2020) ("For maritime tort cases in particular, \we rely on general principles of negligence law.'" (citation omitted)). \[2\] This ruling does not preclude Hipwell from moving before trial to exclude specific pieces of evidence related to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of California · March 29, 2013 · in the opinion
Willis v. Buffalo Pumps, Inc. (2013)
…officer) ... for or relating to any act under color of such office..." II. DISCUSSION In general, a defendant can only remove a case to federal court if the plaintiff could have brought the action there originally…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · August 2, 2012 · in the opinion
Nolen v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2012)
…or 1975. Again, Ay's general testimony that manufacturers, including Foster Wheeler, specified the use of asbestos insulation up until 1971 does not lead to a reasonable inference that asbestos was specified by Foster Wheeler at…