25 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio · May 2, 2003
Lindstrom v. AC Products Liability Trust (2003)
…Wheeler, Aurora Pump, Gulf Engineering, Ingersoll Rand, Walworth, Crosby Valve, General Electric, Warren Pumps, Crane, A.W. Chesterton and Coffin Turbo Pump, and dismissed Lindstrom's claims against them with prejudice. Under maritime product liability law…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · May 10, 2022 · in the opinion
Rogers v. AO Smith Corp. (2022)
…i.e. that General Electric turbines required the incorporation of asbestos insulation. Like with CBS/Westinghouse, the Court will add that the evidence in this case reveals that the Navy's own MilSpecs required that all…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
William Bell served in the Navy in the 1960s as an engineman, machinery repairman and machinist mate and was exposed to asbestos, mostly on four ships. He was later diagnosed with mesothelioma in Louisiana in 2015 and died. His brother John Bell, a…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
…judgment to General Electric, Crane, Air & Liquid Systems (Buffalo), Aurora Pump, Atwood & Morrill, CBS, IMO Industries and Warren Pumps. Under the court's narrowed bare metal defense, a component maker can be liable under general maritime…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
…leaving in place its exclusion of their experts' specific causation opinions, and clarified what the experts may say at trial. Under general maritime law, an expert's specific causation opinion in a multi-defendant mesothelioma case…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
…Graham and Dr. Taragin may give general causation testimony but not specific causation opinions that the defendants' products did not cause Mr. Bell's mesothelioma. A "one-size-fits-all" specific causation opinion that draws no…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 13, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
William Bell served in the U.S. Navy in the 1960s as an engineman, machinery repairman and machinist mate and was regularly exposed to asbestos. Most exposure was on four ships, where maritime law was already settled as governing. He also claimed…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
…DOHSA does not bar a survival action, which proceeds under general maritime law. Under general maritime law a seaman's survivors may recover only pecuniary losses, but pre-death pain and suffering is treated as pecuniary…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 12, 2016
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2016)
William Bell and other plaintiffs sued Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. and a number of other companies in federal court in Louisiana. Mr. Bell died of mesothelioma during the case. Before the court was the defendants' motion to strike witnesses from the…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 6, 2016
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2016)
…denied in part the defendants' motions in limine: it excluded the plaintiffs' experts' specific causation opinions as unreliable but allowed them to testify on Mr. Bell's mesothelioma and general causation, and refused to strike Dr…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 11, 2016
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2016)
William C. Bell and other plaintiffs sued Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. and a group of pump and valve companies in federal court in Louisiana. The case concerns asbestos exposure and mesothelioma; the opinion refers to Mr. Bell's work on a ship and to…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 4, 2016
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2016)
William Bell served in the U.S. Navy in the 1960s as an engineman, machinery repairman and machinist mate. The opinion says he was exposed to asbestos on four ships and while training at a Navy facility in Idaho. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina · August 9, 2017 · in the opinion
Stewart v. Aurora Pump Company (2017)
…BARTON MAJOR, HAYNSWORTH SINKLER BOYD, P.A.. FOSTER WHEELER ENERGY CORPORATION, Defendant, represented by JENNIFER M. TECHMAN, EVERT WEATHERSBY HOUFF. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant, represented by JENNIFER M. TECHMAN, EVERT WEATHERSBY HOUFF. GOULDS PUMPS, INCORPORATED, Defendant…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · April 4, 2018 · in the opinion
Kister v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (In re Asbestos Litigation, 2018)
…Valocchi, Swartz Campbell LLC, Jennifer Ann Kapes, Swartz Campbell LLC & Allison L. Texter, Swartz Campbell LLC. Certainteed Corporation & General Electric Company, Cross Defendants, represented by Beth E. Valocchi, Swartz Campbell LLC. Foster Wheeler LLC, Cross Defendant…
-
Court case · New York Supreme Court · December 14, 2018 · in the opinion
Theodore v. Air & Liquid Sys. Corp. (2018)
…on behalf of its former CHICAGO PUMP & NORTHERN PUMP BUSINESSES, FORD MOTOR COMPANY, FOSTER WHEELER, L.L.C., GARDNER DENVER, INC., GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, GENUINE PARTS COMPANY, trading as NAPA AUTO PARTS, GOULDS PUMPS, INC., HARRISBURG…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · March 28, 2018 · in the opinion
Varney v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2018)
…by Katherine M. Steele, BULLIVANT HOUSER BAILEY & Michael Mackenzie Brown, BULLIVANT HOUSER BAILEY. Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation, General Electric Company & The Gorman-Rupp Company, Defendants, represented by Alice Coles Serko, TANENBAUM KEALE LLP & Christopher S. Marks…
-
Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · August 8, 2011 · in the opinion
Abbay v. Aurora Pump Company (2011)
…successor-in-interest to PEERLESS PUMP COMPANY and CHICAGO PUMP COMPANY); FOSTER WHEELER ENERGY CORPORATION; GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION (sued individually and as successor-in-interest to DELPHI HARRISON THERMAL SYSTEM and HARRISON RADIATOR); IMO INDUSTRIES, INC…
-
Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 15, 2019
Czulada v. Aurora Pump Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…the complaint and cross-claims for lack of personal jurisdiction, so the Czulada plaintiffs prevailed on the motion. A New York court has general jurisdiction over a company that was, at the time of the exposure…
-
Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · March 1, 2021
Behrmann v. Abb, Inc. (2021)
…of exposure that a defendant's asbestos product was a substantial factor in causing the disease; general evidence of possible exposure is not enough. A failure to warn claim fails when causation cannot be shown. Causation…
-
Court case · New York Supreme Court · May 31, 2019
Dembski v. Aurora Pump Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…for lack of personal jurisdiction, and severed and dismissed them. General jurisdiction over a corporation requires that it be at home in New York (place of incorporation or principal place of business), and specific jurisdiction under…