376 results for “General Electric”, page 11 of 19
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri · April 21, 2017
MacCormack v. the Adel Wiggins Group (2017)
…on reconsideration, found it lacked general or specific personal jurisdiction over CBS in Missouri, a loss for the plaintiffs. Missouri's foreign corporation registration statute does not constitute consent to general personal jurisdiction, per State ex…
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Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · September 14, 2012
John Crane, Inc. v. Hardick (2012)
…against John Crane, Inc., while the $1.15 million loss of society award stayed vacated. In a general maritime survival action based on a seaman's death, courts look to the Jones Act, so the decedent…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 25, 2020
Montell v. Viking Pump (Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…the complaint and cross-claims against it, and denied plaintiff's cross-motion for jurisdictional discovery. New York courts lacked general jurisdiction over a corporation not incorporated or headquartered there, and lacked specific jurisdiction under CPLR…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · May 31, 2019
Dembski v. Aurora Pump Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…for lack of personal jurisdiction, and severed and dismissed them. General jurisdiction over a corporation requires that it be at home in New York (place of incorporation or principal place of business), and specific jurisdiction under…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos in strange places: two case reports of mesothelioma among merchant seamen
The authors described two cases of malignant pleural mesothelioma in Greek merchant seamen. Both came from a mesothelioma registry in Greece and were seen at Sismanoglio General Hospital, Athens. The first was a 71-year-old…
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Court case · Delaware Superior Court · October 27, 2017
Walsh v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (In re Asbestos Litigation, 2017)
…law, a plaintiff must show exposure to the defendant's product and that it was a substantial factor in causing the injury; general testimony about replacement parts, without evidence they were made by the defendant, does…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia · May 28, 1997
McCormick v. CE Thurston & Sons, Inc. (1997)
…aboard the ship. She sued through her ancillary administrator in Newport News state court under the Jones Act, the Death on the High Seas Act and general maritime law, alleging a failure to warn. Thurston removed…
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Court case · Washington Supreme Court · October 31, 1989
Falk v. Keene Corp. (1989)
…by risk-utility balancing and consumer expectations, not ordinary common law negligence; instructions letting the jury apply general negligence instructions to it are reversible error. Design Defect; Trial Procedure and Discovery Navy service 1947 to 1953
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · August 10, 2018
Jack v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec LLC (2018)
…a pathologist's tissue analysis, an occupational physician's exposure opinions, a scientist's general testimony on how asbestos causes disease, a historian's account of what was known about asbestos hazards, and studies and videos…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island · March 16, 2017
Stevens v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2017)
…asbestos materials. Genuine factual disputes also barred summary judgment on the sophisticated user and government contractor defenses, and general maritime law does not bar loss of consortium damages. Failure to Warn; The Bare-Metal Defense; Sophisticated…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · January 15, 2019
Ament v. John Crane-Houdalille, Inc. (2019)
…Dr. Arthur Frank, had reviewed no product information and gave only general opinions. The trial court struck his specific causation testimony for lack of a factual basis and entered judgment for Crane. The Court of Special…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · October 22, 2013
McMann v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2013)
…found that Crane's two declarations, from a Navy rear admiral and a historian of government documents, gave general information but nothing specific to Crane's products or to Mr. McMann. Crane offered no reasonably precise…
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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, 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 · Delaware Superior Court · November 29, 2017
Walsh v. Aurora Pump Co. (In re Asbestos Litigation, 2017)
…was a substantial factor in causing the injury. The court found the Walshes' evidence did not support that inference and that they were stretching general testimony about replacement parts. Because they bore the burden of proof…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · October 19, 2018
Johnson v. Aurora Pump Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2018)
…built, and asked for jurisdictional discovery. The court found no general jurisdiction issue and examined specific jurisdiction. It held that the plaintiff offered only an inference that an Aurora sales employee visited the Navy Yard, not…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois · January 31, 2024
Pelton v. John Crane, Inc. (2024)
…may seek punitive damages. Under maritime law, a plaintiff may show substantial-factor causation through admissible general expert testimony plus circumstantial evidence of substantial exposure over a substantial period, without expert testimony specific to the defendant…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · December 23, 2015
Zeringue v. Allis-Chambers Corp. (2015)
…jurisdictional claims with competent evidence. Crane did not produce the Navy contracts or design specifications. It offered general affidavits from a company officer and a retired admiral, written years before the suit. The court found these…