112 results for “General Electric”, page 2 of 6
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Thoracoscopic Biopsy
…lining around the lung) and remove tissue samples for laboratory analysis. It is often performed as VATS (video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery) under general anesthesia with the lung temporarily deflated. For suspected mesothelioma or other pleural disease…
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Vandiver Brown Communications
…and other written exchanges involving Vandiver Brown, who served as secretary and general counsel for Johns-Manville Corporation in the 1930s and 1940s. These documents are among the most-cited pieces of evidence in asbestos litigation…
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Standardized Incidence Ratio (SIR)
…as a cohort of asbestos workers, with the number that would be expected if the group had the same cancer rates as the general population of the same age and sex. An SIR of 1.0…
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Attribution
…and sometimes apportioning it among different products or time periods. It connects general scientific knowledge to one individual's case. Origin From the Latin attribuere, "to assign." As a scientific concept it draws on epidemiology and…
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Diagnostic Laparoscopy
…the same procedure. It is typically performed under general anesthesia as a same-day or short-stay operation. Origin The word combines the Greek lapara (flank or abdomen) with skopein (to look at). Modern laparoscopy developed…
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Kiviluoto 1960
…visible pleural changes on chest X-rays could serve as a marker of past asbestos exposure in a general population. Origin The study was authored by Finnish radiologist Raimo Kiviluoto and published as a supplement to…
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Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH)
…cells are damaged or dying, they release LDH into the blood or into body fluids like the fluid around the lungs, so doctors measure it as a general marker of tissue injury, inflammation, or tumor activity…
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Medical Thoracoscopy
…VATS), it is usually performed by a pulmonologist under local anesthesia with sedation rather than by a thoracic surgeon under general anesthesia. Origin The technique was pioneered by Swedish internist Hans Christian Jacobaeus in 1910, who…
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Product Identification
…In an asbestos case, a patient generally has to connect their illness to particular products by particular defendants, not just to asbestos in general. This proof can come from the patient's own memory, coworker testimony…
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Staging
…the cancer has reached distant organs. The stage guides treatment choices and gives a general sense of prognosis. Origin Grouping cancers by extent of spread developed in the early 20th century, and formal systems were standardized…
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Thoracic Surgery
…biopsies) and treatment operations (such as removing tumors or stripping diseased pleura). The subspecialty focused on lungs and pleura is sometimes called general thoracic surgery, while cardiothoracic surgery also covers the heart. Origin The word "thoracic…
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TSCA Part 1
…occupational bystanders, consumers, and the general population, setting the stage for the 2024 ban on chrysotile asbestos. Origin The Toxic Substances Control Act was enacted in 1976, but its asbestos provisions were strengthened by the Frank…
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Competent Person
…standard requires a competent person to supervise asbestos work on site. Origin The term appears in OSHA's general construction rules and was given specific asbestos duties in the 1994 revision of the construction asbestos standard…
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Background Rate
…Selikoff, and others compared mesothelioma rates in exposed workers to rates in the general population. Significance in Asbestos Context Background rate is central to causation arguments in mesothelioma cases. Because mesothelioma is so rare in unexposed…
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Bradford Hill Criteria
…and diseases like mesothelioma and asbestosis satisfies the Bradford Hill considerations strongly, which is why that general causation is well settled and rarely seriously disputed in court. Your case will more often turn on specific causation…
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Personal Breathing Zone Sample
…actually breathed, which is why OSHA uses it to judge compliance with exposure limits. Origin Early industrial hygiene surveys mostly sampled the general room air (area samples) with fixed instruments such as the midget impinger. Battery…
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Comparative Negligence
…moved away from the strict contributory negligence rule inherited from English common law. Mississippi enacted the first general comparative negligence statute in 1910, and most states adopted some form of it through the 1970s and 1980s…
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Country Rock
…veins. Origin The phrase comes from 18th- and 19th-century British and Cornish mining vernacular, where "country" meant the general district or surrounding ground, and miners distinguished the ore vein from the "country" it ran through…
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Economic Damages
…The concept comes from common-law tort doctrine, which has long divided compensation into measurable monetary losses ("special" or economic damages) and intangible harms ("general" or non-economic damages). Courts formalized this split in the 19th…
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Attorney-Client Privilege
…Many historical asbestos documents involve company counsel: for example, the correspondence of Johns-Manville general counsel Vandiver Brown and Raybestos-Manhattan's Sumner Simpson. Courts deciding whether such documents are privileged look at their purpose and…