12 results for “General Electric”
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Court case · Delaware Superior Court · November 29, 2017
Walsh v. Aurora Pump Co. (In re Asbestos Litigation, 2017)
…was a substantial factor in causing the injury. The court found the Walshes' evidence did not support that inference and that they were stretching general testimony about replacement parts. Because they bore the burden of proof…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · October 19, 2018
Johnson v. Aurora Pump Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2018)
…built, and asked for jurisdictional discovery. The court found no general jurisdiction issue and examined specific jurisdiction. It held that the plaintiff offered only an inference that an Aurora sales employee visited the Navy Yard, not…