14 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · September 21, 2015
Kochera v. General Electric Company (2015)
The district court denied General Electric's motion in limine, joined by Owens-Illinois and John Crane, to exclude plaintiff Kochera's medical expert Dr. Vuskovich, so the plaintiff won the ruling. A physician board certified…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · September 2, 2015
Bell v. Abb Group, Inc. (2015)
The court denied General Electric's motion in limine (joined by John Crane) to exclude the testimony of plaintiff's expert Dr. Vuskovich, so the plaintiff estate won the ruling. An occupational medicine physician who is…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana · September 30, 2015
Hedden v. CBS Corporation (2015)
The court granted summary judgment to Crown Cork & Seal, CBS, General Electric, Gardner Denver, Link-Belt and Riley Power, and denied it to Crane Co. and John Crane, Inc. on the maritime claims, so the Heddens…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · May 28, 2008
Williams v. American Optical Corporation (2008)
A group of Florida plaintiffs, including a personal representative for Wayne Smith, sued American Optical and other companies for asbestosis, which is lung disease and pleural thickening from asbestos exposure. They filed suit before Florida's 2005…
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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 · Pennsylvania Superior Court · December 17, 2007 · in the opinion
Abrams v. Pneumo Abex Corp. (2007)
…Carbide Corporation, Walter B. Gallagher Co., Weil McLain Co., Viacom/Westinghouse Electric Corp., Anchor Packing Co., Combustion Engineering, Inc. Crouse-Hinds, Durametallic Corp., Garlock, Inc. General Electric Co., Hajoca Plumbing Co., Ingersoll Rand, Studebaker- Worthington, Inc…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · January 7, 1998 · in the opinion
ACandS v. Abate (1998)
The Western Electric plant was comprised of several buildings and was approximately three miles long and one-and-one-quarter miles deep. Morrow indicated that he worked primarily in the wire insulation building until he became…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · April 17, 2002 · in the opinion
Andaloro v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (2002)
…Company, Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp., Owens Brockway Glass Container, Inc., Studebaker Worthington, Inc., Uniroyal, Inc., Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Inc., WR Grace & Co., Armstrong World Industries, Inc., Fibreboard Corp., GAF Corporation. Appeal of: John Crane, Inc., Appellant…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · May 31, 2006 · in the opinion
John Crane, Inc. v. Puller (2006)
…and found that it contained asbestos. Dr. Longo's testing of the gaskets involved using a wire brush or an electric wire brush to clean a flange surface. The measuring equipment revealed that significant amounts of…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · February 10, 2005 · in the opinion
Wilson v. John Crane, Inc. (2005)
…that courts consider whether the party seeking the withdrawal or amendment has acted with due diligence. In more general terms, courts should seek to ascertain whether the aggrieved party was careless in not timely filing its…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · June 2, 1993
Jackson v. Anchor Packing Co. (1993)
…had worked at the plant for sixteen to twenty-three years between 1956 and 1979. Most were general tireworkers who did not handle the products. The complaint and the doctors' testimony said the workers had asbestosis…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri · September 11, 2017 · in the opinion
MacCormack v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2017)
…911 (Mass. App. Ct. 1987) (reasoning that a worsening of a condition did not justify a subsequent new action as "\[t\]he general rule is, of course, that a plaintiff the "identity of issues" factor. 8…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · February 13, 2004 · in the opinion
Smalls v. Pittsburgh-Corning Corp. (2004)
…Trial, 12/4/01, at 32. Appellant argues that the opinion was inadmissible because it had no basis in fact nor general acceptance in the scientific community. We disagree. ¶ 11 Again, we observe that the admission…