3 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · April 19, 2007 · in the opinion
Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Altimore (2007)
Altimore or those "similarly situated" takes the focus off Exxon's knowledge of a general danger relative to the qualities of asbestos. By focusing on epidemiological studies, the majority fails to follow our earlier pronouncement that…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · April 3, 2008
Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Altimore (2008)
…its conduct posed an extreme degree of risk. General knowledge of asbestos risk to employees was not evidence of knowledge of an extreme risk to employees' family members. Expert Testimony; Punitive Damages Worksites: Exxon Baytown refinery…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · August 1, 2006 · in the opinion
Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Altimore (2006)
…9 (Tex. App.CHouston \[14th Dist.\] 2004, pet. denied). Foreseeability requires only that the general danger, not the exact sequence of events that produced the harm, be foreseeable. Id. The Texas Supreme Court has frequently stated…