27 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · November 17, 2016
Loupe v. Pennsylvania General Insurance Company (2016)
Marie Nell Martinez Tregre sued in Orleans Parish state court. She alleged she developed mesothelioma, diagnosed in April 2015, from asbestos that clung to her husband Lee Tregre's clothing while he worked at Avondale Industries from about 1953 to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · June 2, 2017
Savoie v. Pennsylvania General Insurance Co. (2017)
Joseph Savoie sued in Louisiana state court, alleging he developed mesothelioma from asbestos exposure while working at the Avondale shipyard (now Huntington Ingalls) in various positions from about 1948 to 1996. He said he was exposed daily at the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana · September 30, 2015
Hedden v. CBS Corporation (2015)
The court granted summary judgment to Crown Cork & Seal, CBS, General Electric, Gardner Denver, Link-Belt and Riley Power, and denied it to Crane Co. and John Crane, Inc. on the maritime claims, so the Heddens…
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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 Louisiana · November 17, 2016
Sheppard v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (2016)
Jesse Frank Sheppard sued in Louisiana state court, and the case was removed to federal court. He alleged he was exposed to asbestos daily while working for Freeport Sulphur Company, now part of Mosaic Global Holdings, and that it caused…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 26, 2016
Sheppard v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (2016)
Jesse Frank Sheppard sued in Louisiana state court, alleging he was exposed to asbestos daily while working for Freeport Sulphur Company, now Mosaic's predecessor. He alleged this caused asbestos-related cancer, lung cancer, or mesothelioma, first…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 30, 2017
Sheppard v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (2017)
…This order dealt only with Liberty Mutual, which had issued workers' compensation and general liability policies to Mosaic. Sheppard claimed Liberty Mutual took on a duty for workplace safety by inspecting Mosaic's facilities and advising…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 24, 2017
Sheppard v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (2017)
Jesse Frank Sheppard sued in Louisiana state court, alleging he worked in various positions for Freeport Sulphur Company, Mosaic's predecessor, and was exposed to asbestos daily. He said the exposure caused asbestos-related cancer, lung cancer,…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · February 2, 2017
Sheppard v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (2017)
Jesse Frank Sheppard sued his former employer, Freeport Sulphur Company (whose successor is Mosaic), along with makers and distributors of asbestos-containing products and related insurers. He alleged that daily asbestos exposure at work caused lung…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota · December 1, 2022
Pyle v. AH Bennett Co. (2022)
Brian Pyle and Glenn Frericks filed separate federal lawsuits in North Dakota against many companies, alleging state-law claims arising from their occupational exposure to asbestos. The opinion does not name their diseases or describe where they…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 24, 2017
Sheppard v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (2017)
Jesse Frank Sheppard sued Mosaic Global Holdings, the successor to his former employer Freeport Sulphur Company, along with product makers and insurers. He alleged daily asbestos exposure at Freeport and said it caused asbestos-related cancer, lung…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · February 2, 2017
Sheppard v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (2017)
Jesse Frank Sheppard sued in Louisiana state court, and the case was removed to federal court in New Orleans. He alleged daily asbestos exposure while working for Freeport Sulphur Company, a predecessor of defendant Mosaic. He also sued makers and…
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Court case · Rhode Island Superior Court · July 22, 2015
Baumgartner v. American Standard, Inc. (2015)
Dennis Baumgartner, an Ohio man diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2013, and his wife Gail sued many makers of valves, boilers and turbines in Rhode Island. He had worked as an insulator and insulator helper at jobsites in Ohio and, occasionally,…
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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 · Louisiana Supreme Court · November 29, 2005 · in the opinion
Cichirillo v. Avondale Industries, Inc. (2005)
…for the following reasons. The general prescription articles in Louisiana simply do not contemplate interruption of prescription by the filing in a court of competent jurisdiction and venue a lawsuit that is premature because it is…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · September 19, 2014
Luna v. AW Chesterton Company (2014)
…not show which products were present when Mr. Luna's exposure began in 1963. It upheld the general damages given his pain and decline. It removed the court costs, as the siblings agreed the hospital could…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · August 15, 2017 · in the opinion
Mayeaux v. Taylor-Seidenbach, Inc. (2017)
…or to comprehensive and detailed regulations."\[33\] Plaintiff contends that establishing that the relevant acts occurred under the "general auspices" of federal direction is insufficient to warrant removal under Section 1442(a)(1).\[34\] Plaintiff argues…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · June 7, 2016 · in the opinion
Murphy v. Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. (2016)
…with a motion and proposed order to have the exceptions set for hearing, in state court. In general, "\[a\] waiver of the right to remove must be clear and unequivocal." Furthermore, as explained in Bourdier v…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · November 6, 2013 · in the opinion
Morvant v. Asbestos Corporation Limited (2013)
…C. § 1332(a). In removal cases, as a general rule, "diversity of citizenship must exist both at the time of filing in state court and at the time of removal to federal court." Coury v. Prot…