12 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · October 22, 2010
Faddish v. General Electric Co. (2010)
…magistrate panel's finding that a genuine factual dispute existed on product identification, but granted General Electric summary judgment on the government contractor defense, so the plaintiff lost her failure-to-warn claim against GE. The…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · January 9, 2020 · in the opinion
Shields v. General Electric Co. (2020)
MARTIN SHIELDS, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC CO., etal. Civil Action No. 18-2421. January 9, 2020. United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania. MARTIN SHIELDS, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF DIANE L. SHIELDS, DECEASED AND MARTIN SHIELDS…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · June 25, 2021
Gay v. AO Smith Corp. (2021)
The court ruled on General Electric's summary judgment motion in a federal asbestos case, but the opinion contradicts itself: the reasoning finds the plaintiff failed to show enough exposure to GE products and says the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · June 17, 2021
Gay v. AO Smith Corporation (2021)
The district court granted General Electric's motion for summary judgment because the plaintiff, executor of Carl Gay's estate, did not show he was exposed to asbestos from a GE product with enough frequency, regularity…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · June 17, 2021
Gay v. AO Smith Corporation (2021)
…from asbestos exposure. His work history included the Navy, the Air Force, General Electric, Stone and Webster, and automotive work. The claim against Yuba concerned his work from 1977 to 1981 on the construction of the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · April 26, 2021
Gay v. AO Smith Corporation (2021)
Carl Gay developed mesothelioma, diagnosed in June 2019, and died in April 2020. His daughter, Allisa Gay, as executor of his estate, sued Gardner Denver and other manufacturers and distributors. She alleged he was exposed to asbestos in Gardner…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · April 26, 2021
Gay v. AO Smith Corporation (2021)
…was diagnosed in June 2019 and died in April 2020. His work history included the Navy, the Air Force, General Electric, Stone and Webster, and automotive work. The claim against Hunter Sales concerned gaskets at the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · June 17, 2021
Gay v. AO Smith Corporation (2021)
…law, a plaintiff must show exposure to the defendant's product and that it was a substantial factor in causing the injury. A general recollection of a product's name, its presence on a ship, or…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · June 3, 2011
Wingfield v. John Crane (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (NO. VI), 2011)
The court granted the Moving Defendants' motion (John Crane, Warren Pumps, General Electric, Georgia-Pacific and Crane Co.) to exclude Emmett Wingfield's videotaped deposition, a ruling against the plaintiff. Under Federal Rule of Evidence 804…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · March 17, 2011 · in the opinion
Kiser v. AW Chesterton Co. (2011)
…Plaintiff argues that either Virginia's General Assembly was aware of what Plaintiff sees as a national trend in favor of adoption of the separate disease rule and embodied this trend when it amended Virginia's…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · March 16, 2011
Kiser v. AW Chesterton Co. (2011)
Phyllis Kiser, as executor of her husband Orvin Kiser, Sr.'s estate, brought a wrongful death suit in October 2010 against a group of companies whose asbestos-containing products were alleged to have caused his mesothelioma. He was diagnosed with…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · July 29, 2011
Corley v. Bill Vann Co. (In re Liability Litigation, 2011)
The executor of Charles Corley's estate sued a group of companies in Alabama state court under the Alabama Wrongful Death Act. Mr. Corley had died of mesothelioma in October 2009. The case was removed to federal court and then sent to the asbestos…