364 results for “General Electric”, page 2 of 19
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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…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
…leaving in place its exclusion of their experts' specific causation opinions, and clarified what the experts may say at trial. Under general maritime law, an expert's specific causation opinion in a multi-defendant mesothelioma case…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 20, 2024
Matherne v. Huntington Ingalls Incorporated (2024)
Survivors of Roseanna Matherne sued Avondale (Huntington Ingalls) and other companies, alleging she developed mesothelioma from asbestos carried home on the clothes of her husband, who worked at Avondale Shipyard. She was diagnosed around December…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
…Graham and Dr. Taragin may give general causation testimony but not specific causation opinions that the defendants' products did not cause Mr. Bell's mesothelioma. A "one-size-fits-all" specific causation opinion that draws no…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · July 25, 2022
Cortez v. Lamorak Insurance Company (2022)
The court granted partial summary judgment for Westinghouse (ViacomCBS), General Electric and Foster Wheeler, dismissing the plaintiffs' intentional-tort and fraud claims, and dismissed the punitive-damages part of the motion as moot. Under Louisiana law…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 13, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
William Bell served in the U.S. Navy in the 1960s as an engineman, machinery repairman and machinist mate and was regularly exposed to asbestos. Most exposure was on four ships, where maritime law was already settled as governing. He also claimed…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 7, 2014
Millet v. Huntington Ingalls Incorporated (2014)
…Foster Wheeler's unopposed summary judgment motion against third-party plaintiff Huntington Ingalls, and denied General Electric's and CBS's motions as premature, without prejudice to re-urging them later. Summary judgment is premature where…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · July 5, 2023
Robichaux v. Huntington Ingalls Inc. (2023)
Felton Robichaux worked as an insulator and carpenter at Avondale Shipyards from 1961 to 1979 and alleged he was exposed to asbestos there. He first sued in 1999 with thousands of other plaintiffs and settled with GE, IMO and Viacom. After he was…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
…DOHSA does not bar a survival action, which proceeds under general maritime law. Under general maritime law a seaman's survivors may recover only pecuniary losses, but pre-death pain and suffering is treated as pecuniary…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · August 26, 2022 · in the opinion
Becnel v. Lamorak Insurance Co. (2022)
…or supplying an asbestos-containing product. Nonetheless, plaintiffs argue that General Electric can be held liable for its failure to warn of the dangers associated with asbestos insulation. According to plaintiffs, defendant was aware that asbestos…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · November 25, 2019
Lopez v. McDERMOTT, Inc. (2019)
…Texaco, Emerson Electric and General Electric, and granted Goulds and ITT's motion only as to the Soliz survival claim (barred by the earlier dismissal) while denying it as to the Soliz wrongful death claims. Under…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 12, 2016
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2016)
William Bell and other plaintiffs sued Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. and a number of other companies in federal court in Louisiana. Mr. Bell died of mesothelioma during the case. Before the court was the defendants' motion to strike witnesses from the…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · May 22, 2019
Berry v. Anco Insulations (2019)
…West Monroe wife of mill electrical and instrumentation technician who laundered his work clothes West Monroe Paper Mill West Monroe 1961-2010; wife of mill electrical and instrumentation technician who laundered his work clothes West Monroe…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 6, 2016
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2016)
…denied in part the defendants' motions in limine: it excluded the plaintiffs' experts' specific causation opinions as unreliable but allowed them to testify on Mr. Bell's mesothelioma and general causation, and refused to strike Dr…