4 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 · Florida District Court of Appeal · May 28, 2008
Williams v. American Optical Corporation (2008)
A group of Florida plaintiffs, including a personal representative for Wayne Smith, sued American Optical and other companies for asbestosis, which is lung disease and pleural thickening from asbestos exposure. They filed suit before Florida's 2005…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · August 14, 2020
Hailey v. Air and Liquid Systems Corporation (2020)
The estate and family of Charles Anthony Shockley sued several equipment makers after he died of pleural mesothelioma in January 2016. Mr. Shockley served in the Navy from 1968 to 1972 as a machinist mate on the destroyer USS Henderson, working…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of North Carolina · August 22, 2023 · in the opinion
The Manville Trust Matching Claimants v. Dbmp, LLC (2023)
…is "a failure or refusal, either express or implicit, actually to exercise discretion, deciding instead as if by general rule, or even arbitrarily, as if neither by rule nor discretion." Jacobson, 6 F.3d at 239…