175 results for “General Electric”, page 3 of 9
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · June 27, 2024
Johnson v. Johnson & Johnson (2024)
…product has a "strict 5 level safety process," is "clinically proven," and has "purity of its ingredients" goes beyond general praise and can plausibly be an express warranty of specified characteristics. consumer user of talc powder
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 22, 2016
Feinberg v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. (Matter of New York City Asbestos Litig., 2016)
… plaintiffs had not excluded other possible causes; its talc was asbestos-free; and there was no proof of general or specific causation. The court denied the motion. Whether her earlier chest pain and pleural effusions were…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · July 15, 2019
Moldow v. AI Friedman, LP (2019)
…s proof; it must show its product could not have contributed to the disease. Conflicting expert affidavits on general and specific causation raise credibility issues that cannot be resolved on motion papers. Causation; Product Identification; Expert…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · April 9, 2020
Nemeth v. Brenntag N. Am. (2020)
…can support specific causation. Where the trial court effectively apportioned 0% to settling defendants who were left off the verdict sheet, General Obligations Law § 15-108 offsets are computed by the aggregate method. Causation; Product Identification…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · August 6, 2018
Black v. Imerys Talc America (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2018)
…and Cyprus Amax Minerals, moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and on forum non conveniens grounds. The court found no general jurisdiction, because both companies are incorporated and based elsewhere. It found specific jurisdiction…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · May 17, 2017
Hodjera v. BASF Catalysts LLC (2017)
…employees or agents in Washington. The plaintiffs argued that WCD sold talc to Johnson & Johnson for nationwide distribution in cosmetic products. The court found no general jurisdiction, which the plaintiffs did not dispute. On specific jurisdiction…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · November 7, 2018
Holleman v. Cosmetics Specialties (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2018)
…between that business and the claim. General jurisdiction was lacking because the defendant was not at home in New York. Personal Jurisdiction Worksites: Childhood home child at home Childhood home mid-1940s; Avon representative 1979-1995…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · December 4, 2018
Shulman v. Imerys Talc America (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2018)
…as to Imerys. Imerys is a Delaware corporation based in California, so New York had no general jurisdiction over it. The court nonetheless found specific jurisdiction under New York's long-arm statute. In interrogatory answers…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · October 20, 2020
English v. Avon Prods., Inc. (2020)
…the New York court to dismiss the case for lack of personal jurisdiction. The court found it could not exercise general jurisdiction because Shulton was not incorporated or headquartered in New York. It found specific jurisdiction…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Talc exposure and risk of stomach cancer: Systematic review and meta-analysis of occupational cohort studies
…Across all forms of talc, the pooled relative risk of stomach cancer, compared with the general population, was 1.21 (95% CI 1.03 to 1.42). For talc not containing asbestiform fibers the figure was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Tissue burden evaluation of elongated mineral particles in two individuals with mesothelioma and whose work history included manufacturing tile
…1, and 1944 and 42 in two Case 2 samples. The laboratory's general-population upper limit for lung tissue was 20 or fewer ferruginous bodies per gram of wet tissue. Lung asbestos fiber counts, per…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Thoracoscopic palliative treatment of malignant pleural effusions: results in 273 patients
…110 (40.3%), and bilateral in 27 (9.9%). Thoracoscopy was performed under general anaesthesia in all patients. Pleural biopsy was performed in two thirds of the patients (70.7%). Pleurodesis was produced by instillation of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Respiratory illness in asbestos contaminated sites: the role of environmental exposure
…Plaques had a significant effect on forced vital capacity in males. Pleural abnormalities were less prevalent in the general population exposed after 1976. The editorial authors argued that exposure categories should consider distance from fibre sources…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
Asbestos and health in 1969
…found the contention that crocidolite itself causes mesothelioma difficult to accept. The author also argued that ferruginous bodies in the general public had not been proved to be asbestos, and named talc as another fiber source…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois · November 23, 2021
Johnson v. Orton (2021)
…Circuit's Krik decision. It limited Monona Rossol to ceramics, as agreed. It limited Dr. Barry Castleman to general historical testimony, barring opinions on Vanderbilt's knowledge, motives or lobbying. It allowed Dr. William Longo's…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · July 14, 2020
Luca v. The Neslemur Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…of State was valid for a dissolved foreign corporation that had been authorized in New York. It found no general jurisdiction. It found specific jurisdiction because Luca's exposure and injury occurred in New York from…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 28, 2020
Germain v. The Neslemur Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…mistaken use of § 307 did not matter. It found no general jurisdiction but found specific jurisdiction under CPLR 302(a)(1) and (2), because Neslemur was headquartered and manufactured in New York when the exposure occurred.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Survival in patients with malignant pleural effusion undergoing talc pleurodesis
…to 2.39; 222 trial patients). The authors concluded there is an association between successful pleurodesis and survival. They called the results by no means definitive and had no data on patients' general fitness (performance status).
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos and other ferruginous bodies: their formation and clinical significance
…with asbestos. At the highest levels of exposure, numbers of asbestos bodies correlate in a general way with the presence of asbestosis, although no precise value has been determined above which asbestosis is always found. In…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · January 30, 2012 · in the opinion
In re WR Grace & Co. (2012)
\[131\] There are two exceptions to the general rule that would allow creditors to proceed against the debtor for the post-petition interest: (1) when a creditor is oversecured under § 506(b); and (2) under § 726…