82 results for “General Electric”, page 2 of 5
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 5, 2014
Horvath v. Acf Indus., LLC (2014)
…signal inspector. Mr. Horvath also testified that, as a signal engineer for General Railway Signal, he was exposed over several months to asbestos from wires, cables and signal components on New York City subway projects. CSX…
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Court case · U.S. Supreme Court · June 1, 2009 · in the opinion
CSX Transp., Inc. v. Hensley (2009)
…absent evidence that the fear was genuine and serious. Both courts affirmed decisions to reject genuine-and-serious instructions and to rely instead on general pain-and-suffering instructions to charge the jury. In so doing…
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Court case · Alabama Supreme Court · December 20, 2002
General Motors Corp. v. Kilgore (2002)
The Alabama Supreme Court reversed the trial court's denial of summary judgment and rendered judgment for General Motors, holding the Kilgores' claims preempted by the Federal Locomotive Inspection Act; two justices dissented. The Federal Locomotive…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · August 10, 2007
Caradonna v. AW Chesterton Co., Inc. (2007)
Joseph Caradonna worked for the Long Island Railroad from 1949 to 1977 as a mechanic's helper, welder, train car inspector, coach cleaner and assistant foreman. He claimed he was exposed to asbestos from brake shoes, gaskets and other materials. He…
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Court case · West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals · March 12, 2009
Ratliff v. Norfolk Southern Ry. Co. (2009)
…In 1986 he took a voluntary separation program, accepted $35,000 and signed a general release of all claims arising from his employment. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in April 2005 and died in July 2005…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Kansas · February 13, 2018
Little v. the Budd Company (2018)
…Dr. Louis Burgher, who would give general opinions on what was known about asbestos hazards during the 20th century. The magistrate judge denied Budd's request to add him and reopen discovery, finding no good cause…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · June 24, 2015
Quiroz v. BNSF Railway Company (2015)
…found that Thoms did not know whether the brake shoes contained asbestos, and the plaintiffs' interrogatory answers and work history sheet gave only general statements. The plaintiffs' industrial hygienist gave no facts showing that the brakes…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Re: Mesothelioma in railroad machinists
…800,000 tremolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The general-population 95th percentile for amosite plus crocidolite was 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The authors stated that the amosite plus crocidolite values…
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Court case · Mississippi Supreme Court · March 17, 2005
Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Gregory (2005)
…Court reversed. It held that joinder under Rule 20 requires a distinct litigable event linking the plaintiffs, and that asbestos cases are not exempt. The plaintiffs had alleged only general negligence, different jobs, places, substances and…
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Court case · California Supreme Court · December 1, 2016 · in the opinion
Kesner v. Superior Court and Haver (2016)
781.) In general, internalizing the cost of injuries caused by a particular behavior will induce changes in that behavior to make it safer. That consideration may be "outweighed, for a category of negligent conduct, by laws…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Kansas · November 20, 2018 · in the opinion
Little v. Budd Company (2018)
Brody's testimony is sufficiently reliable because it rests on general scientific principles about how asbestos exposure causes mesothelioma. Also, Dr. Brody offers no testimony about the specific causation of Mr. Rabe's mesothelioma. Thus, he…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · March 27, 2015
BNSF Railway Company v. Superior Court for County OF Los Angeles (2015)
…motion, because California lacked general personal jurisdiction over BNSF; the Kralovetz family lost. Under Goodyear and Daimler, a corporation is subject to general jurisdiction only where its affiliations with the state make it essentially at home…
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Court case · North Carolina Court of Appeals · March 7, 2006 · in the opinion
Williams v. CSX Transportation, Inc. (2006)
…range of facts that may be inquired into \[on cross-examination\] is virtually unlimited except by the general requirement of relevancy and the trial judge's discretionary power to keep the examination within reasonable bounds." State…
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Court case · U.S. Supreme Court · June 23, 1997 · in the opinion
Metro-North Commuter R. Co. v. Buckley (1997)
…harms suffered by a sympathetic individual plaintiff, so they must consider the general impact, on workers as well as employers, of the general liability rules they would thereby create. Here the relevant question concerns not simply…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maine · January 25, 2021
Coffin v. Ametek, Inc. (2021)
…turns on actual or constructive notice and is ordinarily a jury question; a railroad's general knowledge of asbestos hazards and disputed evidence of escaping dust prevent summary judgment on foreseeability. Causation; Employer and Contractor Liability…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas · April 17, 2023
Gray v. BNSF Railway Company (2023)
…failed under both the Sixth Circuit's Babbitt and the Third Circuit's Wicker tests, and the 2017 release was ineffective as an overbroad general release. FELA Railroad Claims; Settlements and Releases bridge and building carpenter
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Court case · U.S. Supreme Court · February 29, 2012 · in the opinion
Kurns v. Railroad Friction Products Corp. (2012)
…Ante, at 1268. That is insufficient. Not every state law that "could be said to affect tangentially" matters within the regulated field is pre-empted. English v. General Elec. Co., 496 U.S. 72, 85, 110…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Montana · August 9, 2023 · in the opinion
Wells v. BNSF Railway Company (2023)
…to \[the Robinson defendants'\] unreasonably dangerous asbestos contaminated products, which \[the Robinson defendants\] wrongfully placed in the stream of commerce for use and consumption by the general public"; 2) the Robinson defendants "knew that extended exposure…
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Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · August 31, 2017 · in the opinion
Cole v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company (2017)
…chemicals. Id. at 692. Each employee had previously executed a general release in the course of settling unrelated FELA claims. Id. These releases "appeared to settle all claims for all injuries past and future." Id. In…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Idaho · October 1, 2018 · in the opinion
Stephens v. Union Pacific Railroad Company (2018)
…to recover under this claim. Indeed, so much is indicated by the captions in Stephens' Complaint, describing their overarching general allegation: "Plaintiff Sustained Toxic Exposure to Asbestos From Union Pacific Locomotives." Compl. at p. 3, Dkt…