170 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 9
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · January 31, 2007
Graves v. Riverwood International Corp. (2007)
…trial, leaving the plaintiffs' verdict in place (general damages cut by the trial court from $4,500,000 to $3,000,000). A worker's tort claim against his employer vests when significant asbestos exposures occur…
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Court case · California Supreme Court · May 23, 2016 · in the opinion
Webb v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2016)
…suppliers "to develop expertise regarding a multitude of different end-products and to investigate the actual use of raw materials by manufacturers over whom the supplier has no control." (Ibid.) Artiglio v. General Electric Co., supra…
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Court case · Kentucky Court of Appeals · March 6, 2009 · in the opinion
Cardinal Industrial Insulation Co., Inc. v. Norris (2009)
\[1\] The Complaint named as Defendants: Cardinal Industrial Insulation Company, Inc.; Triangle Insulation and Sheetmetal Co.; General Electric Company; ACandS Inc.; Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC; Anchor Packing; John Crane, Inc.; Combustion Engineering, Inc.; RapidA-merican Corporation…
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Film · Films
Fibers of Freedom
…waste disposal, and irrigation systems, and as a conduit for electrical and distribution systems. Asbestos fiber and diatomaceous silica are formed into fireproof sheets of J-M Marinite and marine sheathing, which which help prevent disastrous…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · January 31, 1986 · in the opinion
Knauer v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
…federal judiciary an equal power, and certainly no such judicial power could reasonably be inferred from the grant of authority to the Supreme Court to prescribe general rules of practice and procedure. When matters of state…
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Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · March 6, 1981 · in the opinion
Locke v. Johns-Manville (1981)
…the defendants in the November 1978 order appealed from. The record shows that since approximately 1948 plaintiff had been employed as an industrial electrician by various contractors at sites in Virginia, New York and North Carolina…
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Film · Films · 1976
Perception of Risk
…increases fivefold very few things to which we are exposed are zero risks but like the automobile and electricity there are non harmful ways to use potentially harmful things it's simply a matter of probabilities…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · April 16, 1990 · in the opinion
Simpson v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp. (1990)
…Plaintiff's decedent, David Simpson, was employed at Rochester Gas and Electric Company from 1957 to 1988. His primary duties involved working on the steam piping system. This work brought him into extensive contact with asbestos…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York · March 15, 1989 · in the opinion
In re Johns-Manville Corp. (1989)
…Thus, pursuant to ¶ 10.1(B) of the Plan and the general power of this Court, the Court retains jurisdiction to determine the instant dispute. The Plan also provides in ¶ 10.1(G) that the Court…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court · March 8, 1985 · in the opinion
Devlin v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1985)
… 26, provides that the general rules against claim splitting are rendered inapplicable when: (b) The court in the first action has expressly reserved the plaintiff's right to maintain the second action or; (f) it is…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · January 30, 1935
Raybestos-Manhattan's General Manager to Vandiver Brown on the Mellon Institute Group (1935)
…report is at Brown's memorandum on the Mellon Institute symposium. About this copy The letter is signed only "General Manager," with typist's initials that look like "MFJ-G." The writer may have been M…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · July 23, 1936
M. F. Judd to W. H. Dunn on Charging the Charleston Re-check Survey to the General Asbestos & Rubber Division (1936)
…s attorneys indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows: Confirms that Metropolitan charges re: recheck survey at Charleston should be billed to General Asbestos and Rubber Division. Related documents W. H…
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Company or organization · People and organizations
Raybestos-Manhattan
Raybestos-Manhattan was a major American manufacturer of asbestos-containing friction products, especially brake linings and clutch facings for automotive and industrial use. Its name became so tied to brakes that "Raybestos" is still a…
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Person · People and organizations
E. H. Jeffords
General Manager, General Asbestos & Rubber Division at Raybestos-Manhattan
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Person · People and organizations
O. H. Cilley
Assistant general manager of Raybestos-Manhattan's United States Asbestos Division at Manheim, Pennsylvania, 1938–1944; arranged Metropolitan Life X-rays of employees and reported dust surveys and dust-control work to company president Sumner Simpson…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · December 15, 1939
R. B. Davis to Dr. Albert S. Gray Inviting Him to Tour the Stratford Plant (1939)
What it shows The letter shows Raybestos-Manhattan's new general manager inviting the state's occupational disease office to inspect the Stratford plant after the Bridgeport work was moved there, and asking the state for…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · September 14, 2007
Terrance v. Dow Chemical Company (2007)
The court affirmed the judgment on the jury's $5,000,000 general damages verdict for the Terrance estate and surviving spouse against Exxon, and denied Exxon's JNOV, new trial and remittitur motions. Mesothelioma was…
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Person · People and organizations
M. F. Judd
Secretary of Raybestos-Manhattan, 1935–1938, and general manager of its Raybestos Division in 1936; corresponded with Johns-Manville attorney Vandiver Brown about dust counter Otto Binder and the Saranac agreement, and sent the Metropolitan Life…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · May 24, 2017
Romano v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. (2017)
…but reversed the damages ruling and raised the general damages award for the Romanos from $500,000 to $1,500,000. A solidary obligor gets a virile share credit only if the plaintiff released the other…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · May 19, 1938
A. F. Heinsohn to M. N. Garvey Returning Gardner's Progress Report (1938)
A one-page letter of May 19, 1938, from A. F. Heinsohn, factory manager of Raybestos-Manhattan's General Asbestos & Rubber Division in North Charleston, South Carolina, to Miss M. N. Garvey, Sumner Simpson's secretary…