11 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · October 21, 2013
Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation v. AW Chesterton Co., Inc. (2013)
Seven plaintiffs, or their estates, brought asbestos injury suits in New York County. Six had mesothelioma and one, Perez, had lung cancer. Their cases were part of an "In Extremis" trial group, and they asked for a joint trial. Their alleged…
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Court case · Tennessee Court of Appeals · March 13, 2008
Woody v. AW Chesterton Company (2008)
Wayne Woody, an insulator, and his wife Rebecca sued dozens of companies after he was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma in 2006; he died shortly after the suit was filed. In 1979 the Woodys had sued 25 companies over his asbestosis and settled in…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · July 29, 2011
Corley v. Bill Vann Co. (In re Liability Litigation, 2011)
The executor of Charles Corley's estate sued a group of companies in Alabama state court under the Alabama Wrongful Death Act. Mr. Corley had died of mesothelioma in October 2009. The case was removed to federal court and then sent to the asbestos…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · July 25, 2016 · in the opinion
Arbogast v. AW Chesterton Co. (2016)
…to Square D for use in the manufacture or assembly of molded or bonded component parts in certain electrical equipment products which may or may not have contained asbestos:... Union Carbide Corporation \[and\] General Electric.... (Id…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · July 13, 2016 · in the opinion
Winhauer v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2016)
…Defendant, represented by Neal C. Glenn, Kelley Jasons McGowan Spinelli & Hanna LLP & Daniel Partick Daly, Kelley Jasons McGowan Spinelli & Hanna LLP. General Electric Company, Defendant, represented by Beth E. Valocchi, Swartz Campbell LLC. Honeywell International Inc…
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Court case · Utah Supreme Court · January 30, 2015 · in the opinion
Riggs v. Georgia-Pacific LLC (2015)
…we were faced with a statutory conflict between the general statute of limitations for wrongful death claims and the statute of limitations found in Utah's Health Care Malpractice Act.\[26\] There we applied the more…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 23, 2014 · in the opinion
Robertson v. Doug Ashy Building Materials, Inc. (2014)
…It then concluded that the only evidence plaintiffs had on causation was Dr. Mark's "general causation" opinion (that exposure to asbestos causes mesothelioma) and that opinion did not "carry the day." On January 29, 2013…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · July 31, 2014 · in the opinion
Williams v. Georgia-Pacific (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (NO. VI), 2014)
…App. at 160. Baxley submitted as evidence testimony from Oliver E. Burch, former General Sales Manager for Georgia-Pacific's Gypsum Division, which was apparently given in a deposition for a separate lawsuit. Burch stated that…
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Court case · Rhode Island Superior Court · March 5, 2015 · in the opinion
Jones v. 84 Lumber Company (2015)
…which was to standardize and simplify the proof of laws of foreign states." Id. In 1940, the Rhode Island General Assembly enacted a revised form of the Judicial Notice of Foreign Law Act, P.L. 1940…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana · July 14, 2014 · in the opinion
Davidson v. Georgia Pacific LLC (2014)
…s testimony is reliable, including testing and testability, peer review and publication, evaluation of known rates of error, and general acceptance within the scientific community. See Daubert, 509 U.S. at 593-94, 113 S.Ct…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · February 26, 2020 · in the opinion
Union Carbide Corporation v. Font (2020)
…chair' defense, the defendant need only answer the complaint with a general denial and argue to the jury that the injury was due to the negligence of a non-party to the suit." Vila v. Philip…