442 results for “General Electric”, page 22 of 23
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · December 15, 1988 · in the opinion
Whatley v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1988)
…474 (5th Cir.1985); see Shipp v. General Motors Corp., 750 F.2d 418, 425 (5th Cir.1985) (Duncan placed the allocative burden of comparative causation on the defendant). Sufficiency of the Evidence Whatley contends that…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · June 13, 2022 · in the opinion
Becnel v. Lamorak Insurance Company (2022)
…judgment is disfavored when issues of intent or state of mind are involved, plaintiffs fail to consider that this is a general rule. The rule does not preclude this Court from evaluating the merits of such…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 5, 2006 · in the opinion
Dankenbrink v. Foster Wheeler (Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2006)
…products during overlapping periods of time from the 1940's to the 1990's so that the state of the art testimony and other expert testimony in a general way will be substantially common to all…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · March 30, 1994 · in the opinion
Williamson v. Plant Insulation Co. (1994)
…The proceedings here had not reached that stage when Wash Williamson died. (4) "The general rule is that \courts have inherent power to enter judgments nunc pro tunc so as to relate back to the time…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · April 15, 2009 · in the opinion
Daley v. AW Chesterton, Inc. (2009)
…Note: Rule 1035.2 sets forth the general principle that a motion for summary judgment is based on an evidentiary record which entitles the moving party to judgment as a matter of law. The evidentiary record…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 6, 2020 · in the opinion
Schrank v. Amchem Prods., Inc. (2020)
…increased risk for lung cancer among vehicle mechanics. This is with the caveat that since smoking rates amongst vehicle mechanics are much higher compared to the general population, studies that do no account for the effect…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · September 24, 1987 · in the opinion
VaSalle v. Celotex Corp. (1987)
…Defendants assert that plaintiff's causes of action accrued in 1972 when VaSalle discovered that he was suffering from asbestosis. • 1, 2 As a general rule, when a plaintiff suffers an obvious injury from a single…
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Court case · Michigan Court of Appeals · March 6, 2007 · in the opinion
Jaqua v. Canadian Nat. RR, Inc. (2007)
…575 (1942). In Callen, the plaintiff sued for injuries he sustained in a railroad accident after he signed a general release agreement that, in exchange for a cash payment, waived any claim for injuries he sustained…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · May 9, 1991 · in the opinion
Thacker v. Unr Industries, Inc. (1991)
…In a comprehensive opinion, this court discussed and applied a combination of the general substantial-factor test of causation and the "frequency, regularity and proximity test" and the "fiber-drift" theory which involved causation of asbestos…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · March 30, 1992 · in the opinion
Borman v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1992)
…persons with a significant smoking history\] as compared with the non-smokers and ... the non-asbestos exposed folks in the general population? A Up to 12 — up to 12 to 15 times the group you compared…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · September 3, 2014 · in the opinion
Feuerman v. A.O. Smith Water Prods. Co. (Matter of New York City Asbestos Litig., 2014)
…All seven of the plaintiffs in proposed joint trial Group One are alleged to have been exposed, in general, to asbestos at commercial and residential job sites in and around the New York City area while…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · September 21, 1992 · in the opinion
Thacker v. Unr Industries, Inc. (1992)
…44 Ill.2d at 405, 256 N.E.2d 6. As is the general rule in civil cases, the plaintiff has the burden of producing evidence sufficient to establish each element of his or her claim.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Mesothelioid reaction following talc pleurodesis: a case report
This case report described one patient: a 43-year-old woman with a 40 pack-year smoking history who went to an emergency department with right-sided chest pain, fatigue and chronic cough. Repeated right-sided pneumothoraxes (collapsed lung) had been…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Clinical feature of diagnostic challenging cases for pleural biopsy in patient with malignant pleural mesothelioma
This retrospective study from one hospital in Japan reviewed 400 consecutive patients suspected of having malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). All had a surgical pleural biopsy by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) between 2004 and 2017. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Extended pleurectomy decortication for thymoma with pleural dissemination
This case report described one patient, a 30-year-old Japanese man with a type B1 thymoma (a tumor of the thymus) that had spread to the lining of the right chest cavity (pleural dissemination). The article does not discuss asbestos. Malignant…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Non-incisional pleurectomy/decortication for malignant pleural mesothelioma
This retrospective review from one hospital in Kitakyushu, Japan, assessed a surgical technique the authors developed for malignant pleural mesothelioma: pleurectomy/decortication done without cutting into the pleura ("non-incisional"), intended to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Extrapleural pneumonectomy or pleurectomy/decortication for malignant pleural mesothelioma
This invited review article came from the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Hyogo College of Medicine in Japan. It discussed the choice between two operations for malignant pleural mesothelioma. Extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) removes the lung,…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
FDG PET/CT is useful for detecting infiltration to the port site in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma
This study looked back at 21 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma treated at Nagoya University Hospital in Japan. All had surgery with curative intent between June 2007 and May 2013, after diagnosis by a video-assisted thoracic surgery…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Interim results of pleurectomy/decortication and intraoperative intrapleural hyperthermic cisplatin perfusion for patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma intolerable to extrapleural pneumonectomy
This was a review, at one Tokyo university hospital, of 14 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma treated with surgery plus other therapies between June 2010 and April 2014. Four patients unable to tolerate extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) had…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Need for randomized clinical trials testing targeted therapies in malignant pleural mesothelioma
This was a letter to the editor of Lung Cancer, written in response to an earlier article on BAP1 as a treatment target. In it, the authors reported a small meta-analysis, which pools the results of published trials, of targeted drug therapies for…