24 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky · April 12, 2013
Stallings v. Georgia-Pacific Corporation (2013)
…keeping the case in federal court on General Electric's and Crane Company's federal officer removal. A government contractor may remove under the federal officer removal statute if it was acting under a federal agency…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · February 1, 2012
Conner v. Alfa Laval, Inc. (2012)
The court granted summary judgment to General Electric, Crane, Foster Wheeler, Warren Pumps, IMO Industries, Buffalo Pumps, Armstrong International and CBS, and denied the plaintiffs relief on their strict liability and negligence claims. Under maritime law…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · July 22, 2011
Conner v. Alfa Laval, Inc. (2011)
Four consolidated asbestos cases in the federal asbestos MDL in Pennsylvania involved Navy veterans or a shipyard worker who developed mesothelioma. Robert Conner, James Prange and James Stone served at sea on Navy ships as a machinist's mate and…
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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, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · July 21, 2011
Conner v. Alfa Laval, Inc. (2011)
Four consolidated asbestos cases in the federal MDL-875 docket involved Navy-related mesothelioma. Robert Conner, James Prange and James Stone served aboard Navy ships, working with engine rooms, fire rooms and boilers. Hiram Peavy worked as a…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · August 17, 2018 · in the opinion
Grimes v. AT&T Corp. (2018)
…III, Caruso Pope Edell Picini, P.C. & RICHARD DOMINICK PICINI, CARUSO SMITH EDELL PICINI, PC. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant, represented by CHRISTOPHER J. KEALE, TANENBAUM KEALE LLP, DAVID SCHUYLER BLOW, TANENBAUM KEALE LLP & MICHAEL A. TANENBAUM…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · January 9, 2017 · in the opinion
Grimes v. AT&T Corp. (2017)
…LLP. FOSTER WHEELER CORPORATION, Cross Defendant, represented by CHRISTOPHER J. KEALE, SEDGWICK LLP & DAVID SCHUYLER BLOW, SEDGWICK LLP. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Cross Defendant, represented by CHRISTOPHER J. KEALE, SEDGWICK LLP & DAVID SCHUYLER BLOW, SEDGWICK LLP. IMO…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · February 14, 2023 · in the opinion
Korol v. Aurora Pump Company (2023)
…AS SUCCESSOR TO BW/IP INTERNATIONAL, INC. SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO BYRON JACKSON PUMP COMPANY); GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY; THE GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY (SUED INDIVIDUALLY AND AS SUCCESSOR TO DURABLA MANUFACTURING); GREEN, TWEED AND CO.,…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida · August 2, 2012 · in the opinion
Faddish v. Buffalo Pumps (2012)
…U.S. at 534, 115 S.Ct. 1043; Reynolds v. General Electric Co., 2012 WL 2835500 (E.D.Pa.2012). On the other hand, if the worker's exposure was primarily land based, then, even if…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut · February 19, 2015 · in the opinion
Bray v. Ingersoll-Rand Co. (2015)
…24 (Crane); 84:6-24 (same). He was able to recall only the brands Westinghouse and General Electric without prompting. Choate was prompted to describe certain elements of the products he recalled, such as their label…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · March 11, 2008 · in the opinion
Norris v. Crane Company (2008)
…the procedural matters. Therefore, we affirm. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND\[2\] General Knowledge of Asbestos Hazards By 1930, it was well established in the medical and scientific communities that breathing asbestos fibers caused asbestosis, a scarring…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky · November 17, 2015 · in the opinion
Stallings v. Georgia-Pacific Corporation (2015)
…526 U.S. 137, 147-49 (1999) (applying Daubert's general principles to the expert matters discussed in Rule 702). First, the Court must determine "whether the experts' testimony reflects \scientific knowledge,' whether their findings are…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois · May 19, 2014
Horrie v. AW Chesterton Company (2014)
…as contracts or Navy warning requirements, that the government controlled the warnings and that this conflicted with state law. Crane's general affidavits did not do so. Failure to Warn; Government Contractor Defense and Removal; Venue…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii · February 7, 2014
Cabasug v. Crane Company (2014)
…court found no evidence that Emhart's distillers contained asbestos or that Emhart supplied asbestos replacement parts, since the plaintiffs relied on general expert statements about what manufacturers typically did. Griscom-Russell had dissolved in 1962…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Georgia · December 27, 2013
Cabasug v. Crane Company (2013)
…law, the court found no evidence that Emhart's distillers contained asbestos components or that Emhart supplied asbestos replacement parts, and the expert's statements were too general. The Griscom-Russell company dissolved in 1962, before…
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Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · March 2, 2012
John Crane, Inc. v. Hardick (2012)
…whether under DOHSA, the Jones Act, or general maritime law, and a Navy sailor who contributed to the function of vessels and had a substantial connection to them is a seaman. Arguments not briefed under Rule…