547 results for “General Electric”, page 16 of 28
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
What to do about the asbestos currently in ships and industry?
…the author cited studies indicating that essentially all adult lungs contain asbestos fibers, while mesothelioma is rare in the general population. The author stated that approximately 1.5 million Royal Navy seamen and officers served for…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos disease in United States shipyards
…based on only 13 shipyard asbestosis deaths. Overall, shipyard insulators' mortality did not differ substantially from that of insulators in general. Second, in 1975 and 1976 the authors X-rayed 1000 volunteer workers at a shipyard…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · July 29, 2015
Vedros v. Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc. (2015)
…of asbestos knowledge, the Walsh-Healey Act, specific risk percentages, life expectancy, and general symptoms and quality of life, plus an unlisted 1956 article. It also struck his rebuttal report to Dr. Stockman. It kept the…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 29, 2019
Mantovi v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…types or to exposure levels in other studies. The court found the plaintiffs had not raised a triable issue on general or specific causation and granted the motion. It dismissed the claims and cross-claims against…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · December 12, 2022
Boutte v. Huntington Ingalls Inc. (2022)
…adopted allegations identified the workplaces, that missing job and date details could be learned in discovery, and that McDermott could simply deny the general paragraphs that did not apply to it. The pleading was not unintelligible.
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · February 15, 1990
Uram v. Abex Corp. (1990)
…run long before 1987. For Virginia's consortium claim, the court applied the general one-year statute with a discovery rule. It found she should likewise have suspected the cause in 1976, so her claim was…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 7, 2022 · in the opinion
Adams v. Eagle, Inc. (2022)
"General causation is whether a substance is capable of causing a particular injury or condition in the general population, while specific causation is whether a substance caused a particular individual's injury."\[61\] Because of the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · November 5, 1997 · in the opinion
Ciletti v. Raymark Indus. (In re Asbestos Litigation, 1997)
In general, filing a proof of claim would not appear to constitute settlement under § 15-108. The plaintiff's proffer of a release to the defendant has been called "the defining moment of settlement", In re…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · June 18, 2015 · in the opinion
Vedros v. Grumman (2015)
As a general rule, questions relating to the basis and sources of an expert's opinion rather than its admissibility should be left for the jury's consideration. United States v. 14.38 Acres of Land…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · April 10, 1992 · in the opinion
Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Balbos (1992)
Castleman also testified that some general-knowledge encyclopedias included notes on asbestosis as early as 1939 or 1940. The Court of Special Appeals reviewed this evidence and held that "\[a\] jury ... could reasonably infer that Porter…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 20, 2006 · in the opinion
Chaisson v. Avondale Industries, Inc. (2006)
Accordingly, we hold that Zachry breached its general duty, under the facts and circumstances of this case, to Mrs. Chaisson by putting her in foreseeable risk [\190] of contracting an asbestos related disease from household exposure…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 22, 2023 · in the opinion
Ragusa v. Louisiana Guaranty Insurance Association (2023)
However, Avondale argues that Plaintiff's self-serving testimony and this general policy cannot be enough to subject it to liability for negligence (Rec. Doc. 568, at 3). Avondale states that this evidence "does not translate…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · January 17, 1995 · in the opinion
Sparks v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1995)
…the court was confronted with a complicated claim that General Motors' defective design of the wheel assembly and front floorboard enhanced the injuries the plaintiff suffered when another car collided with the left front wheel area…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 4, 2016
South v. Texaco (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2016)
…understood his 1997 release covered a future mesothelioma claim, and ordered plaintiff's counsel to disclose the settlement amount. Under the Jones Act and general maritime law, the party relying on a seaman's release bears…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · April 25, 2023
Fiffie v. Taylor-Seidenbach (2023)
…Geismar. When all federal claims have been dismissed before trial, the general rule is that a district court declines supplemental jurisdiction over the remaining state-law claims. Here the statutory and common-law factors favored remand…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas · February 8, 1993
Boyett v. Keene Corp. (1993)
…the plaintiff's settlements with the shipowners and other manufacturers, and it denied States Marine Lines' (Isco's) claim for indemnification from Keene. Under general maritime law, a non-settling defendant gets a settlement credit only…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of California · August 5, 2021
Darden v. Western Asbestos Settlement Trust (In re Western Asbestos Co., 2021)
…Trust, holding that Edward Darden's 1986 release and claim preclusion barred his June 2017 trust claim. Under California law a third party may enforce a general release if the contracting parties intended to benefit it…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · November 28, 1988 · in the opinion
Menne v. Celotex Corp. (1988)
…113 (3d Cir.1985) (evidence of general use of Pittsburgh Corning's Unibestos at job site was sufficient to allow jury to find Pittsburgh Corning to be a factor in causing the plaintiff's injury). \[13…
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Court case · Connecticut Supreme Court · April 5, 2017 · in the opinion
Bagley v. Adel Wiggins Group (2017)
\[12\] "Common knowledge is limited, however, to those well substantiated facts that are obvious to the general community." State v. Padua, 273 Conn. 138, 193, 869 A.2d 192 (2005) (Katz, J., dissenting and concurring). Common…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · February 1, 2022 · in the opinion
Labarre v. Bienville Auto Parts Inc. (2022)
…1980s and 1990s) raising the question of Bienville's general knowledge about the dangers of asbestos-containing products.\[63\] Because there is at least some evidence that Bienville knew or should have known that the products…