224 results for “General Electric”, page 4 of 12
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Fiber size and number in workers exposed to processed chrysotile asbestos, chrysotile miners, and the general population
…chrysotile ore, 20 long-term chrysotile miners, and 20 members of the general population (controls). Significantly greater amounts of both chrysotile and tremolite were found in processed-ore workers and miners than in controls. On average…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas · September 30, 1996
Blase v. Allied Signal Inc. (1996)
Mildred Blase sued several companies after the death of her husband, Harold Blase, an auto mechanic at Bell of Pennsylvania. She claimed that working with the defendants' products, which allegedly contained asbestos, caused his lung cancer and…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · April 30, 2010
Betz v. Pneumo Abex LLC (2010)
…causation testimony on scientific theories the parties never raised and no expert supported, and extrapolation from higher to lower doses and the absence of supporting epidemiology do not by themselves defeat general acceptance. Causation; Expert Testimony…
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Court case · Ohio Court of Appeals · December 26, 1989
Bush v. Abex Corp. (1989)
…a genuine issue of material fact on exposure. Product Identification; Trial Procedure and Discovery Worksites: Delco Moraine Division, General Motors; Delco Moraine Division, General Motors, Dayton reliability chemist Delco Moraine Division, General Motors Dayton 1962-1987
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · January 17, 2003
Garlock v. Gallagher (2003)
…Sparrows Point plant (steel mill); General Motors plant, Halethorpe; Bethlehem Steel, Sparrows Point, Sparrows Point; General Motors plant, Halethorpe, Halethorpe pipe fitter Bethlehem Steel, Sparrows Point Sparrows Point 1946-1979; warehouseman General Motors plant, Halethorpe Halethorpe
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Court case · Delaware Superior Court · April 24, 2019
Rowland v. Union Carbide Corp. (In re Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…Worksites: home renovation projects; Plastolite; General Motors homeowner assisting with home renovation clean-up home renovation projects 1972-1976; launderer of her husband's work clothing Plastolite; launderer of her father's work clothing General Motors
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Nature of exposure to chrysotile
Fibres in general, and chrysotile fibres in particular, have properties that set them apart from other airborne particles in terms of their aerodynamic behaviour and the nature of their interactions with cells and fluids in vivo…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Tissue burden of asbestos in nonoccupationally exposed individuals from east Texas
The potential for asbestos exposure among members of the general population is appreciable, considering its widespread use in many products. This study examined tissue burden of asbestos in such a population. A group of 33 individuals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Asbestos lung burden and asbestosis after occupational and environmental exposure in an asbestos cement manufacturing area: a necropsy study
This necropsy (autopsy) study examined lung tissue from the consecutive autopsies done at the General Hospital of Casale Monferrato, Italy, home to a large asbestos cement factory, from July 1985 to July 1988. Of 55 autopsies…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · May 24, 2010
Larson v. Georgia Pacific (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation, 2010)
The court denied all four Daubert motions, allowing plaintiffs' causation experts (Brody, limited to general causation, and Legier), defense industrial hygienist Dyson's dose reconstruction testimony, and defendants' causation experts to testify. Expert testimony is admissible…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 14, 2019
Mettias v. The Pep Boys Manny, Moe & Jack of California (Laosd Asbestos Cases, 2019)
…refusal to give general negligence instructions and the misstatements in reading the instructions caused no prejudicial error. A party is entitled to instructions on every theory supported by substantial evidence, but not to general negligence instructions…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 14, 2019
Linsky v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…cross-claims, finding fact issues on general and specific causation. A defendant cannot win summary judgment by pointing to gaps in plaintiff's proof and must show its product did not contribute to the illness. Conflicting…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · April 17, 2019
Srica v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…dismiss the plaintiffs' complaint and all cross-claims, finding fact issues on general and specific causation. A defendant cannot win summary judgment by pointing to gaps in plaintiffs' proof; it must make a prima facie showing…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 25, 2020
Lamenta v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…the plaintiffs' claims and all crossclaims against it, because the plaintiffs did not raise a fact issue on general or specific causation. In a toxic tort case, expert opinion must show both that the toxin can…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 11, 2019
Bagwell v. Union Carbide Corporation (2019)
…were not at fault and the trial court's evidence and instruction rulings, but raised the survival-action general damages against RMC Holdings, increasing the total award from $1,265,000 to $1,498,333.34…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 27, 2019
Linsky v. Mannington Mills (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…Linsky's complaint and all cross-claims, finding issues of fact on general and specific causation. A defendant cannot win summary judgment by pointing to gaps in plaintiff's proof; it must make a prima facie…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos content of lung tissue, lymph nodes, and pleural plaques from former shipyard workers
…in tissue taken at autopsy from eight former shipyard workers, aged 58 to 82, at the General Hospital of Monfalcone, a shipyard town in northeastern Italy. Seven had work histories of 6 to 46 years in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…a letter to The Lancet, not a research study, written by a health and safety co-ordinator at the UK Transport and General Workers Union. It responded to a May 9, 1998 commentary by Mark Cullen…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · July 31, 2019
Carlstrand v. Mannington Mills (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…win summary judgment by pointing to gaps in the plaintiff's proof, and conflicting expert opinions on general and specific causation raise credibility issues of fact that cannot be resolved on motion papers. Causation; Product Identification…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · March 24, 2022
Marino v. Abex Corporation (2022)
…harmless. A trial court may sanction a party for violating a discovery consent order by directing a verdict on duty and breach, and on general causation, where the violation was deliberate and the sanction fit it…