20 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · April 8, 2014
Krauss v. Trane US Inc. (2014)
The Superior Court affirmed the trial court's summary judgment for General Electric, Georgia-Pacific, CBS/Westinghouse, Goulds Pumps, Zurn Industries and Trane (American Standard), and the executrix lost. A plaintiff must produce evidence that the…
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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 · 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 · Pennsylvania Superior Court · May 19, 2014
Rost v. Ford Motor Company (2014)
Richard Rost and his wife Joyce sued Ford Motor Company and other defendants, alleging that asbestos exposure caused his mesothelioma. All defendants except Ford settled before trial. Rost testified that in 1950 he worked for several months at a…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · April 9, 2015
Thomasson v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2015)
…Trane, FMC, General Electric, Foster Wheeler and CBS) against plaintiff Claire Thomasson, and denied MetLife's motion to dismiss without prejudice while allowing 45 days of added discovery. To recover in an asbestos case under New…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · March 17, 2011 · in the opinion
Kiser v. AW Chesterton Co. (2011)
…Plaintiff argues that either Virginia's General Assembly was aware of what Plaintiff sees as a national trend in favor of adoption of the separate disease rule and embodied this trend when it amended Virginia's…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · March 16, 2011
Kiser v. AW Chesterton Co. (2011)
Phyllis Kiser, as executor of her husband Orvin Kiser, Sr.'s estate, brought a wrongful death suit in October 2010 against a group of companies whose asbestos-containing products were alleged to have caused his mesothelioma. He was diagnosed with…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · September 17, 2010 · in the opinion
Moore v. Ericsson, Inc. (2010)
…International and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., DFT, RPM, Bondex International, Fosterwheeler, LLC, Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC, General Electric Company, CY Goldberg, Ingersollrand, Georgia Pacific, Melrath Gasket Company, Metropolitan Life Insurance, Owens-Illinois, Inc., Riley Power…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · March 30, 2016 · in the opinion
Pace v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2016)
… AW CHESTERTON COMPANY; ELLIOTT COMPANY, f/k/a Elliott Turbomachinery Co. Inc.; FISHER CONTROLS INTERNATIONAL LLC; GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY; GOODRICH CORPORATION, f/k/a BF Goodrich Company; IMO INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED, individually and as successor to Transamerica…
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Court case · Connecticut Appellate Court · September 8, 2015 · in the opinion
Brochu v. Aesys Technologies (2015)
…D & N Insulation Co.; Elliott Turbomachinery Co., Inc.; Fairbanks Morse Engines; Foster Wheeler Corp.; Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC; General Electric Co.; Georgia Pacific Corp.; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.; Goulds Pumps, Inc.; Homasote Co.; IMO Industries, Inc.…
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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 · California Court of Appeal · August 25, 2009 · in the opinion
Campbell v. American Standard, Inc. (2009)
…difficult if not impossible, is irrelevant to the determination whether the forum is suitable unless \the alternative forum provides no remedy at all.' \[Citations.\]" (Guimei v. General Electric Co. (2009) 172 Cal.App.4th 689, 696.)…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · March 13, 2012 · in the opinion
Rabovsky v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (2012)
…the order of November 1, 2011, denied Pennsylvania Electric's Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings. As a general rule, a magistrate judge cannot "determine" a motion for judgment on the pleadings. See 28 U.S…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · January 25, 2012 · in the opinion
Rabovsky v. Goulds Pumps (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (NO. VI), 2012)
Brody's testimony to assist the jury's general understanding of mesothelioma in the same case. See Larson, 2010 WL 4676563 at [\3], n.3 (describing the Schumacher opinion). In Larson, Judge Robreno similarly upheld Magistrate…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri · April 21, 2017
MacCormack v. the Adel Wiggins Group (2017)
…on reconsideration, found it lacked general or specific personal jurisdiction over CBS in Missouri, a loss for the plaintiffs. Missouri's foreign corporation registration statute does not constitute consent to general personal jurisdiction, per State ex…
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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 · New York Supreme Court · July 24, 2015 · in the opinion
Best v. The William Powell Co. (Matter of New York City Asbestos Litig., 2015)
…engine, pumps, valves, steam traps, and turbines, and general cleanup. After he left the Navy, Best performed brake jobs on vehicles using asbestos-containing brakes. (NYSCEF 95). Defendants remaining in his action are Carrier Corporation, Goulds…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri · September 11, 2017 · in the opinion
MacCormack v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2017)
…911 (Mass. App. Ct. 1987) (reasoning that a worsening of a condition did not justify a subsequent new action as "\[t\]he general rule is, of course, that a plaintiff the "identity of issues" factor. 8…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 5, 2006 · in the opinion
Dankenbrink v. Foster Wheeler (Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2006)
…products during overlapping periods of time from the 1940's to the 1990's so that the state of the art testimony and other expert testimony in a general way will be substantially common to all…