3 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · Tennessee Court of Appeals · March 13, 2008
Woody v. AW Chesterton Company (2008)
Wayne Woody, an insulator, and his wife Rebecca sued dozens of companies after he was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma in 2006; he died shortly after the suit was filed. In 1979 the Woodys had sued 25 companies over his asbestosis and settled in…
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Court case · Tennessee Supreme Court · January 4, 2021 · in the opinion
Coffman v. Armstrong International, Inc. (2021)
There the canon avoids not contradiction but the superfluity of a specific provision that is swallowed by the general one, "violat\[ing\] the cardinal rule that, if possible, effect shall be given to every clause and…
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Court case · Tennessee Court of Appeals · July 22, 2019 · in the opinion
Coffman v. Armstrong International, Inc. (2019)
…the general duty of care includes a duty to warn when the manufacturer "knows or has reason to know" that its product "is or is likely to be dangerous for the use for which it is…