52 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 3
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · April 10, 2025
Thibodeaux v. General Electric Company (2025)
Reed Thibodeaux and his wife, Cynthia Thibodeaux, sued General Electric Company and other defendants, including Huntington Ingalls Incorporated (Avondale). The case concerns Reed's employment-related asbestos exposure and his later mesothelioma diagnosis. Avondale asked the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · November 17, 2016
Loupe v. Pennsylvania General Insurance Company (2016)
Marie Nell Martinez Tregre sued in Orleans Parish state court. She alleged she developed mesothelioma, diagnosed in April 2015, from asbestos that clung to her husband Lee Tregre's clothing while he worked at Avondale Industries from about 1953 to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 18, 2014
Comardelle v. Pennsylvania General Insurance Company (2014)
Michael Comardelle sued Westinghouse (CBS Corporation), Foster Wheeler, GE and more than a dozen other defendants in Orleans Parish civil court. He alleged that asbestos exposure during his work from 1963 to 1979, including at the Avondale Shipyard,…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · June 2, 2017
Savoie v. Pennsylvania General Insurance Co. (2017)
Joseph Savoie sued in Louisiana state court, alleging he developed mesothelioma from asbestos exposure while working at the Avondale shipyard (now Huntington Ingalls) in various positions from about 1948 to 1996. He said he was exposed daily at the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · July 17, 2019
Bondurant v. 3M Company (2019)
…holding that General Electric and CBS Corporation (Westinghouse) properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute. A boilerplate disclaimer of claims arising from federal officers' acts does not defeat federal officer removal where the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · February 25, 2022
Roussell v. Huntington Ingalls, Inc. (2022)
The court granted summary judgment to General Electric and Foster Wheeler because Roussell did not oppose the motions, and dismissed her claims against them with prejudice. A plaintiff who fails to oppose a summary judgment motion…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · May 23, 2012
Najolia v. Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Inc. (2012)
…s motion to remand, holding that General Electric and CBS Corporation (Westinghouse) properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute. A defendant may remove under the federal officer removal statute, 28 U.S.C…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 14, 2014
Vedros v. Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc. (2014)
The district court granted General Electric's motion for summary judgment and dismissed the plaintiffs' claims against GE with prejudice, because the plaintiffs lacked evidence that GE supplied or attached any asbestos-containing material. A turbine…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 9, 2015
Laurent v. New Orleans City (2015)
Scott Laurent sued General Electric, CBS Corporation, Foster Wheeler and others in Louisiana state court for wrongful death and survival damages after the death of his father, Frederick Laurent, from mesothelioma in December 2013. The father…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · April 24, 2024
Legendre v. Louisiana Ins. Guaranty Association (2024)
…s work at Johns-Manville. Before a trial set for May 6, 2024, two motions challenged expert testimony. The defendants (including General Electric, Foster Wheeler, Uniroyal and Taylor-Seidenbach) argued that Legendre's experts, Dr. Kraus…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 29, 2021
Dempster v. Lamorak Insurance Co. (2021)
…court denied General Electric's motion for summary judgment and reconsideration, finding disputed fact issues about whether the 1991 release covered future lung cancer and wrongful death claims, so the plaintiffs' claims against General Electric continue…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 16, 2020
Dempster v. Lamorak Ins. Co. (2020)
The court granted Amchem's (joined by Foster Wheeler and General Electric) motion in limine and excluded Plaintiffs' Exhibit No. 1.157, the Welch Paper, and any reference to it at trial. Even assuming the Welch…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · February 21, 2024
Matherne v. Huntington Ingalls Incorporated (2024)
The court granted Avondale's motion and quashed the trial subpoenas that Plaintiffs and Defendants General Electric, Foster Wheeler and Paramount Global had directed to Avondale as a corporate entity. Rule 45 does not allow a…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 25, 2022
Falgout v. Anco Insulations, Inc. (2022)
…Marie Falgout. The opinion does not name her disease. Avondale brought a third-party complaint against Foster Wheeler, General Electric (GE) and Amchem, seeking their share of any amounts it might owe the plaintiffs. Mr. Falgout…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · May 3, 2022 · in the opinion
Cortez v. Lamorak Insurance Company (2022)
…However, other options did exist at that time. Q. Okay. But General Electric certainly knew that was one of the options that would be used on these turbines, was asbestos-containing insulation? A. I'm sure…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · November 10, 2014
White v. Entergy Gulf States Louisiana (2014)
The court of appeal affirmed the trial court's $3.8 million survival-action general damages award for the plaintiffs against Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, over a dissent that would have capped the award at $2…
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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 · November 17, 2016
Sheppard v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (2016)
Jesse Frank Sheppard sued in Louisiana state court, alleging that daily asbestos exposure while working for Freeport Sulphur Company, Mosaic's predecessor, caused asbestos-related cancer, lung cancer, or mesothelioma, first diagnosed in October…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · July 20, 2022
Cortez v. Lamorak Insurance Company (2022)
…when the family shared a home. Defendants Foster Wheeler, General Electric and ViacomCBS (Westinghouse) asked the court before trial to exclude part of the testimony of plaintiffs' two medical causation experts, Dr. Rodney Landreneau and Dr…
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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…