33 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 18, 2014
Comardelle v. Pennsylvania General Insurance Company (2014)
Michael Comardelle sued Westinghouse (CBS Corporation), Foster Wheeler, GE and more than a dozen other defendants in Orleans Parish civil court. He alleged that asbestos exposure during his work from 1963 to 1979, including at the Avondale Shipyard,…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut · September 17, 2007
Machnik v. Buffalo Pumps Inc. (2007)
The court denied Machnik's motion to remand to state court, finding that General Electric had justified federal officer removal, so the case stayed in federal court. A government contractor may remove under the federal officer…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · February 25, 2022
Roussell v. Huntington Ingalls, Inc. (2022)
The court granted summary judgment to General Electric and Foster Wheeler because Roussell did not oppose the motions, and dismissed her claims against them with prejudice. A plaintiff who fails to oppose a summary judgment motion…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut · January 7, 2020
Carlson v. CBS Corporation (2020)
The court granted General Electric's unopposed motion for summary judgment, dismissing the Carlsons' claims against it with prejudice, along with Ms. Carlson's consortium claim and the cross-claims of Foster Wheeler and Crane Co…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 9, 2015
Laurent v. New Orleans City (2015)
Scott Laurent sued General Electric, CBS Corporation, Foster Wheeler and others in Louisiana state court for wrongful death and survival damages after the death of his father, Frederick Laurent, from mesothelioma in December 2013. The father…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 16, 2020
Dempster v. Lamorak Ins. Co. (2020)
The court granted Amchem's (joined by Foster Wheeler and General Electric) motion in limine and excluded Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 1.157, the Welch Paper, and any reference to it at trial. Even assuming the Welch…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · February 21, 2024
Matherne v. Huntington Ingalls Incorporated (2024)
The court granted Avondale's motion and quashed the trial subpoenas that Plaintiffs and Defendants General Electric, Foster Wheeler and Paramount Global had directed to Avondale as a corporate entity. Rule 45 does not allow a…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · May 3, 2022 · in the opinion
Cortez v. Lamorak Insurance Company (2022)
…However, other options did exist at that time. Q. Okay. But General Electric certainly knew that was one of the options that would be used on these turbines, was asbestos-containing insulation? A. I'm sure…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · August 1, 2012
Vedros v. Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc. (2012)
Sally Gros Vedros sued CBS, Foster Wheeler and General Electric in Louisiana state court, alleging that she and her father were exposed to asbestos from boilers and turbines the companies supplied to vessels built at Avondale…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · July 20, 2022
Cortez v. Lamorak Insurance Company (2022)
…when the family shared a home. Defendants Foster Wheeler, General Electric and ViacomCBS (Westinghouse) asked the court before trial to exclude part of the testimony of plaintiffs' two medical causation experts, Dr. Rodney Landreneau and Dr…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · July 25, 2022
Cortez v. Lamorak Insurance Company (2022)
The court granted partial summary judgment for Westinghouse (ViacomCBS), General Electric and Foster Wheeler, dismissing the plaintiffs' intentional-tort and fraud claims, and dismissed the punitive-damages part of the motion as moot. Under Louisiana law…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · May 22, 2019
Berry v. Anco Insulations (2019)
…West Monroe wife of mill electrical and instrumentation technician who laundered his work clothes West Monroe Paper Mill West Monroe 1961-2010; wife of mill electrical and instrumentation technician who laundered his work clothes West Monroe…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 28, 2022
Gooding v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. (2022)
The district court denied seven defendants' motions for summary judgment (Bayer CropScience, Swiftships, Foster Wheeler, General Electric, ViacomCBS, Bollinger Shipyards Lockport, Boland Marine), leaving the plaintiffs' claims for trial. Under Louisiana law, a plaintiff must show…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 21, 2020
Dempster v. Lamorak Insurance Co. (2020)
…Before trial, Avondale, Bossier and Lamorak, joined by Foster Wheeler and General Electric, asked the court to exclude evidence of asbestos-related illness, hearing loss and other ailments of non-parties and family members. Plaintiffs argued…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut · October 27, 2008
Carroll v. Buffalo Pumps, Inc. (2008)
…Carrolls' motion to remand, holding that defendants Viad, General Electric and Buffalo Pumps properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute. A defendant may remove under the federal officer statute, 28 U.S.C. …
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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 · April 18, 2022
Cortez v. Lamorak Insurance Company (2022)
Callen Cortez sued several companies, including Huntington Ingalls (Avondale), Westinghouse, Foster Wheeler, General Electric, Goodrich, Amchem and the Hopeman interests, over his mesothelioma. He asked the federal district court in Louisiana for partial summary judgment on…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · May 5, 2016
Arbogast v. AW Chesterton Co. (2016)
Charles Arbogast, Jr., and his wife Barbara sued twenty-seven companies, alleging that as manufacturers or distributors of various products they exposed him to asbestos and caused his mesothelioma. The complaint raised strict liability, negligence,…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 23, 2020
Dempster v. Lamorak Ins. Co. (2020)
The court granted the motion in limine by Avondale, Bossier and Lamorak (joined by Foster Wheeler and General Electric), excluding evidence of Avondale accidents and regulatory citations unrelated to asbestos exposure; the plaintiffs lost this ruling…
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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…