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  1. Medical study · Medical research · 1992

    Human mesothelioma cells and asbestos-exposed mesothelial cells are selectively resistant to amosite toxicity: a possible mechanism for tumor promotion by asbestos

    …cells that were only immortalized by SV40. The sensitivity of normal mesothelial cells to asbestos does not appear to be simply a result of general fragility of the mesothelial cells, since similar levels of hydrogen peroxide…

  2. Medical study · Medical research · 2002

    The combination of effects on lung cancer of cigarette smoking and exposure in quebec chrysotile miners and millers

    …equivalent to exposure amounting to 700 million particles per cubic foot x years. The refutation of the multiplicative hypothesis in these data reinforces its inapplicability in general; but the additive hypothesis is not generally applicable either…

  3. Medical study · Medical research · 2015

    Extended follow-up of lung cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease mortality among California diatomaceous earth workers

    …significant. Associations were attenuated when adjusted for smoking and asbestos exposure. Mortality from NMRD was significantly increased over the entire follow-up compared to the general population (SMR=1.37, 95% CI 1.17 to 1.60)…

  4. Medical study · Medical research · 1992

    Three types of human lung tumour cell lines can be distinguished according to surface expression of endogenous urokinase and their capacity to bind exogenous urokinase

    …u-PA. Large cell carcinoma cell lines expressed high amounts of u-PA and bound large amounts of u-PA. In general, expression of u-PA and u-PA binding was enhanced after PMA treatment. (ii…

  5. Medical study · Medical research · 1988

    Multistage modelling of lung cancer mortality in asbestos textile workers

    …suggest whether a carcinogen appears to act at an early, intermediate or late stage, and the general statistical methods applied here will retain their usefulness as further models are developed and larger data sets become available.

  6. Medical study · Medical research · 1993

    Asbestos exposure among Finnish lung cancer patients: occupational history and fiber concentration in lung tissue

    …construction jobs, and valuable information about the exposure levels could be obtained by the mineral fiber analyses. In general, there was a good accord between the exposure categorization and the fiber burden measured in the lung.

  7. Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · December 22, 1994 · in the opinion

    Goss v. American Cyanamid Co. (1994)

    …as a salesperson to the American Cyanamid plant that there should be an inference raised that he sold them asbestos containing products inasmuch as they were available to customers of Madsen & Howell in a general sense…

  8. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit · April 26, 2017 · in the opinion

    Bobo v. Tennessee Valley Authority (2017)

    …AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees. James S. Chase, Edward C. Meade, Edwin Warren Small, Tennessee Valley Authority, Office of General Counsel, KNOXVILLE, TN, for Defendant-Appellant. Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, JORDAN, Circuit Judge, and LAMBERTH,\[\\] District…

  9. Court case · Georgia Court of Appeals · November 3, 2023 · in the opinion

    Bowers v. CSX Transportation, Inc. (2023)

    …917 F.2d at 964 (finding speculative testimony inadmissible). Moreover, Blickenstaff's opinion based on these studies often conflated general and specific causation. He stated that it was unnecessary to connect Luther's specific jobs to…

  10. Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina · March 23, 2021 · in the opinion

    McDaniel v. John Crane, Inc. (2021)

    …high known or potential rate of error and whether there are standards controlling the technique's operation," and (4) "\[w\]hether the theory or technique enjoys general acceptance within a relevant scientific community." Kumho Tire Co.…

  11. Court case · California Supreme Court · July 3, 1980 · in the opinion

    Johns-Manville Products Corp. v. Superior Court (1980)

    …App.2d 451, 458-460 \[70 Cal. Rptr. 710\].) In Ramey v. General Petroleum Corp. (1959) 173 Cal. App.2d 386, 402 \[343 P.2d 787\], it was held that an action for fraud could be…

  12. Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas · November 12, 1990 · in the opinion

    Cimino v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1990)

    …to concurrently produce a single injury, the plaintiff may recover from the defendant for the entire injury. Shipp v. General Motors Corporation, 750 F.2d 418, 425-26 (5th Cir.1985). The plaintiff need only show…

  13. Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 26, 1999 · in the opinion

    Howard v. Owens Corning (1999)

    …emotional distress, intentional tort, conspiracy [\389] and loss of consortium; and sought general, special and punitive damages against no fewer than 215 named defendants and 300 unnamed does. Specifically, the complaint alleged that as a result…

  14. Court case · Indiana Court of Appeals · September 14, 2001 · in the opinion

    Parks v. AP Green Industries, Inc. (2001)

    …disease and its cause constitutes a new injury and the basis for a separate cause of action. In general, product liability actions must be brought within two years after the cause of action accrues or within…

  15. Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · November 19, 1984 · in the opinion

    Colombo v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1984)

    13, 68 L.Ed.2d 1 (1981) (federal law shall govern issues arising in negligence actions under LHWCA section 5(b)) with Edmonds v. Compagnie Generale Atlantique, 443 U.S. 256, 272 n. 31, 99 S…

  16. Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · April 24, 2018 · in the opinion

    Jarrett v. Consol. Rail Corp. (2018)

    …Accordingly, Jarrett argues that her claim should have gone before a jury for a determination as to whether lung cancer was a "known risk" and/or whether the release was unenforceable as a general boilerplate release…

  17. Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · May 9, 1991 · in the opinion

    Wehmeier v. Unr Industries, Inc. (1991)

    …OSHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Solomon stated it was his general impression that the level of asbestos used at UNARCO's Bloomington plant was not safe. Solomon stated he never saw chrysotile asbestos ground…

  18. Court case · California Court of Appeal · October 2, 2013 · in the opinion

    Swanson v. Simpson Timber Company (2013)

    …lawyering." (Id. at p. 811.) As a general rule, an employee who sustains an industrial injury "arising out of and in the course of the employment" is limited to recovery under the workers' compensation system. (Lab…

  19. Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · August 31, 2015 · in the opinion

    Bell v. Abb Group, Inc. (2015)

    …person's expertise. Generalized knowledge of a particular subject will not necessarily enable an expert to testify as to a specific subset of the general field of the expert's knowledge. Martinez v. Sakurai Graphic Sys…

  20. Court case · Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court · May 25, 1972 · in the opinion

    Bambrick v. Asten Hill Mfg. Co. et al. (1972)

    …he meant asbestosis when he said asbestos exposure, as well as exceed our judicial prerogative. The General Assembly has limited recovery to death caused by asbestosis, not asbestos exposure. There is insufficient evidence upon which to…