224 results for “General Electric”, page 5 of 12
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · August 10, 2018
Jack v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec LLC (2018)
…a pathologist's tissue analysis, an occupational physician's exposure opinions, a scientist's general testimony on how asbestos causes disease, a historian's account of what was known about asbestos hazards, and studies and videos…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 17, 2020
Peterson v. Vanderbilt Mineral (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…them earlier was inadvertent and the other side shows no prejudice. Conflicting expert reports on general and specific causation raise fact issues that bar summary judgment, and a venue change motion served long after the answer…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 25, 2019
Gallagher v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…the plaintiffs' claims against it go forward. A defendant cannot get summary judgment by pointing to gaps in the plaintiff's proof. Where the parties' experts conflict on general and specific causation, issues of fact remain…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · July 10, 2020
Richards v. American Biltrite (Matter of Eighth Jud. Dis. Asbestos, 2020)
…could not have contributed to the plaintiff's disease. Even if it did, competing expert affidavits on general and specific causation raise fact issues for trial. Causation; Product Identification; Expert Testimony Worksites: grocery stores in Buffalo…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 24, 2019
Djokic v. Steel Grip (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…s proof; it must show its product did not contribute to the disease, and conflicting expert opinions on general and specific causation raise fact issues. A consortium claim fails where the exposure preceded the marriage. Causation;…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · March 24, 2020
Schrader v. Ameron International Corporation (2020)
…Schrader prevailed on that point. A trial court abuses its discretion when it denies a jury's specific request to view a duly admitted exhibit based only on a general preference and speculation about prolonged deliberations…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 29, 2019
Albin v. Mannington Mills (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…make a prima facie showing that its product did not contribute to the illness, and conflicting expert affidavits on general and specific causation raise fact issues for trial. Causation; Expert Testimony Worksites: House on Beach Street…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 30, 2002
Hennegan v. Cooper/T. Smith Stevedoring Co. (2002)
…Garlock 80 percent at fault and the settling employer 20 percent, and awarded $2,500,000 in general damages plus $596,769.62 in special damages. On appeal Garlock argued that the court shifted the burden…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Re Ferrante et al (2020). Mortality and mesothelioma incidence among chrysotile asbestos miners in Balangero, Italy: A cohort study
…incomplete, explanation. Lung cancer SMRs versus the general population were almost identical: 1.14 (95% CI 0.81 to 1.55) and 1.16 (0.87 to 1.52). By cumulative exposure (fiber/mL-years), Pira…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Re: Mesothelioma in railroad machinists
…800,000 tremolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The general-population 95th percentile for amosite plus crocidolite was 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The authors stated that the amosite plus crocidolite values…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Evaluation of take-home exposure and risk associated with the handling of clothing contaminated with chrysotile asbestos
…weekly). These averages assumed zero asbestos outside the 30 to 45 minutes of each activity. PCM, a general fiber count, read 2 to 50 times higher than TEM, which the authors attributed largely to clothing fibers…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
The four most pernicious myths in asbestos litigation: Part I: safe chrysotile and idiopathic mesothelioma
…data on a Connecticut friction-products factory cohort. On idiopathic mesothelioma, the author cited reviews of historical autopsy records at Massachusetts General Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital. The author concluded that virtually all, if not all…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Metallic elements in crude and milled chrysotile asbestos from Quebec
…present at very low levels, and calcium was not detected in crude fibers. Milled fibers showed a general increase in all metals, by factors from 1.3 to more than 15. Chromium and nickel were many…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Mortality from a Chinese asbestos plant: overall cancer mortality
…chrysotile. The plant made brake shoes, textiles and rope. Deaths were compared with Qingdao's general population. The text reports 22 cancers causing 21 deaths, though the table lists 22 cancer deaths against 11.17 expected…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
The case for a global ban on asbestos
…cancer and mesothelioma. They described industry-sponsored "product defense" science. They cited a court document stating that General Motors, Ford and Chrysler paid almost $37 million between 2001 and 2008 to scientist-consultants. They reported that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Ban all production and export of chrysotile asbestos
…that importing countries offer weak or no worker protection, and that exposure of the general population is likely extensive and impossible to document. The author stated that Canadian chrysotile exports are directly responsible for the deaths…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…current or ex-smokers, against less than 0.5% of women. Compared with the general population, lung cancer mortality was estimated at about 17-fold in men and four-fold in women. People tended to be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Canada, chrysotile and cancer: Health Canada's Asbestos International Expert Panel report
…mesothelioma and asbestosis. Describing other studies, the author reported a general consensus that chrysotile is less potent than amphiboles for mesothelioma, by a highly uncertain amount. The author called the evidence of a difference for lung…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Nonoccupational exposure to chrysotile asbestos and the risk of lung cancer
…and crocidolite fibers per gram of dry lung. The laboratory's maximal general-population background for amosite plus crocidolite is 10,000 fibers per gram of dry lung. The second and third had asbestosis at autopsy…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Letter to the Editor re Bernstein et al: Health risk of chrysotile revisited. Crit Rev Toxicol, 2013; 43(2): 154-183
…and millers with pleural mesothelioma than in miners without asbestos-related disease. Churg and Wiggs (1986) found long chrysotile fibers in the lungs of many exposed workers but few general-population controls. Rogers and colleagues (1991)…