2,273 results for “General Electric”, page 3 of 114
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · September 25, 2019
McClung v. 3M Company (2019)
The district court denied Plaintiff's objections, adopted the magistrate judge's recommendations as modified, found no personal jurisdiction over General Electric or Boeing, denied their motions to dismiss, and severed and transferred the claims against…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · May 20, 2015
Meyers v. Chesterton (2015)
Debra Meyers and Ronald Palermo, adult children of Ronald Dummitt, sued in Louisiana state court for his wrongful death from malignant mesothelioma. Dummitt worked as a Navy boiler technician from 1960 to 1988 on naval vessels, and the plaintiffs…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · January 10, 2012
Adams v. Armstrong International, Inc (2012)
…Circuit Court, finding General Electric had not shown federal officer removal jurisdiction. A defendant removing under the federal officer statute must show the federal government prevented it from complying with its state-law duty to warn;…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio · November 10, 2016
French v. AW Chesterton Company (2016)
…Ohio state court, saying his mesothelioma was caused by exposure to asbestos. General Electric and CBS Corporation (successor to Westinghouse) moved the case to federal court under the federal officer removal statute. At his deposition, Mr…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · April 8, 2014
Krauss v. Trane US Inc. (2014)
The Superior Court affirmed the trial court's summary judgment for General Electric, Georgia-Pacific, CBS/Westinghouse, Goulds Pumps, Zurn Industries and Trane (American Standard), and the executrix lost. A plaintiff must produce evidence that the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut · January 7, 2020
Carlson v. CBS Corporation (2020)
The court granted General Electric's unopposed motion for summary judgment, dismissing the Carlsons' claims against it with prejudice, along with Ms. Carlson's consortium claim and the cross-claims of Foster Wheeler and Crane Co…
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Court case · Rhode Island Superior Court · July 21, 2021
Wallace v. Trane Company (2021)
The Superior Court granted General Electric's motion for summary judgment on all counts because the Wallace plaintiffs failed to show that Mr. Wallace was exposed to asbestos from an original GE product. Under Maine law…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts · May 9, 2018
Burleigh v. Alfa Laval, Inc. (2018)
The magistrate judge allowed General Electric's motion, ruling that Maine law, not Massachusetts law, governs the wrongful death damages and punitive damages issues and, for now, the contribution issues. Under the Restatement (Second) of Conflict…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa · July 16, 1998
Harder v. ACandS, Inc. (1998)
The federal district court denied General Electric's motion for summary judgment, holding that Iowa's fifteen-year statute of repose did not bar the Harders' claims against GE over asbestos insulation blankets. Under Iowa Code…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · August 15, 2023
Warrington v. 3M Company (2023)
The court granted General Electric's motion for summary judgment, dismissing all claims and crossclaims against GE with prejudice and ruling against plaintiffs Robert and Joan Warrington. Under maritime law, a plaintiff must show exposure to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · July 22, 2011
Conner v. Alfa Laval, Inc. (2011)
Four consolidated asbestos cases in the federal asbestos MDL in Pennsylvania involved Navy veterans or a shipyard worker who developed mesothelioma. Robert Conner, James Prange and James Stone served at sea on Navy ships as a machinist's mate and…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 14, 2014
Vedros v. Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc. (2014)
The district court granted General Electric's motion for summary judgment and dismissed the plaintiffs' claims against GE with prejudice, because the plaintiffs lacked evidence that GE supplied or attached any asbestos-containing material. A turbine…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · June 17, 2021
Gay v. AO Smith Corporation (2021)
The district court granted General Electric's motion for summary judgment because the plaintiff, executor of Carl Gay's estate, did not show he was exposed to asbestos from a GE product with enough frequency, regularity…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · June 3, 2011
Rabatin v. Allied Glove Corp. (2011)
The Superior Court affirmed summary judgment for General Electric, holding the 12-year statute of repose in 42 Pa.C.S.A. § 5536 barred the estate's claims over asbestos-insulated turbines, and Rabatin, executor of…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Oregon · February 2, 2018
Coury v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2018)
…keeping the case in federal court under the federal officer removal statute for General Electric and CBS. A settlement-related email from a plaintiff's side can be an "other paper" under 28 U.S.C…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · March 28, 2022
Pritt v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2022)
The court denied General Electric's motion to exclude plaintiffs' industrial hygiene expert Dr. Tsai and denied as moot its motion to exclude Capt. Burger. It granted GE summary judgment on the Navy-service claims, denied…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · October 21, 2013
Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation v. AW Chesterton Co., Inc. (2013)
Seven plaintiffs, or their estates, brought asbestos injury suits in New York County. Six had mesothelioma and one, Perez, had lung cancer. Their cases were part of an "In Extremis" trial group, and they asked for a joint trial. Their alleged…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia · April 29, 2016
Siders v. 20th Century Glove Corporation OF Texas (2016)
…West Virginia, rejecting General Electric's federal officer removal. A plaintiff's express disclaimer of all claims for asbestos exposure during Navy service removes the basis for a government contractor defense, so a defendant cannot show…
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Court case · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · December 4, 2018
Stearns v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (2018)
…260, § 2B bars the estate's asbestos tort claims against General Electric, even though the disease has a long latency and GE had control of the site; this favored GE and went against the Oliver estate…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 9, 2015
Laurent v. New Orleans City (2015)
Scott Laurent sued General Electric, CBS Corporation, Foster Wheeler and others in Louisiana state court for wrongful death and survival damages after the death of his father, Frederick Laurent, from mesothelioma in December 2013. The father…