227 results for “General Electric”, page 6 of 12
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · October 24, 2002
Vaughn v. Ford Motor Co. (2002)
The court of appeals affirmed the take-nothing judgment for Ford, General Motors, Daimler Chrysler, Allied Signal, Borg-Warner and Uniroyal, holding the exclusion of plaintiff's experts was an abuse of discretion but harmless because…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · July 31, 2002
In re Federal-Mogul Global, Inc. (2002)
Tens of thousands of people sued in state courts across the country, claiming that asbestos in friction products such as brake pads gave them or their relatives mesothelioma, lung, laryngeal or esophageal cancer, or asbestosis. They sued makers and…
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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 · North Dakota Supreme Court · December 22, 1999
Black v. Abex Corp. (1999)
…Court affirmed summary judgment for Allied-Signal, Borg-Warner, Chrysler and General Motors, dismissing Rochelle Black's market share and alternative liability claims. Even assuming market share liability were recognized, a plaintiff must present admissible evidence…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · November 13, 2003
Polito v. Burns Int'l Services Corp. (Matter of Asbestos Litig., 2003)
…repaired over a number of years. The remaining defendants were Burns International (formerly Borg-Warner), DaimlerChrysler, Ford and General Motors, all involved in making or distributing brake products. Before trial, they moved to exclude certain evidence…
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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 · New York Supreme Court · August 20, 2019
Rosen v. Genuine Parts Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…against them for lack of personal jurisdiction, and severed and dismissed them. A corporation is subject to general jurisdiction where it is incorporated or has its principal place of business, and specific jurisdiction under CPLR 302…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 6, 2020
Koenig v. Pneumo Abex (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…it, and denied the plaintiffs' cross-motion for jurisdictional discovery. New York courts lacked general or specific personal jurisdiction over a non-New York defendant where the plaintiff's exposure and injury occurred in Massachusetts, and…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 27, 2005
DeMeyer v. DaimlerChrysler Corp. (Matter of Asbestos Litig, 2005)
…York applies the Frye general acceptance standard rather than Daubert; once the challenger makes a prima facie showing that an expert's methodology is not generally accepted, the proponent must prove general acceptance by a fair…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas · December 21, 2018
Thomas v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec LLC (2018)
…old brakes, since Arkansas has not adopted market share liability. All other claims survived. The court found factual disputes over general causation, frequency of exposure, design defect and the adequacy of Honeywell's warnings. It applied…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · May 23, 2018
Chen v. Volkswagen Group of America (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2018)
…asked to dismiss the case because Texas was a more convenient forum. The court held that it lacked general jurisdiction over Volkswagen and Nissan. It found long-arm jurisdiction proper because Chen's testimony and the…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · September 15, 2015
North v. Adam Opel AG. (2015)
…there was no general jurisdiction, and argued that New York's long-arm statute gave specific jurisdiction and that more discovery was needed. The court held that the plaintiffs' submissions, which included a General Motors annual…
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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…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · July 23, 2018
Gilbert v. Advance Auto Parts (2018)
…specific defendant's product was frequent, regular and proximate; general testimony that a parts store or vehicle make was used at the workplace, without evidence tying the decedent to that product, is too speculative to survive…
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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 · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit · August 23, 2018
Waite v. Aii Acquisition Corp. (2018)
…tort, and a corporation is not at home in a state, or deemed to consent to general jurisdiction, merely by substantial business there or by registering and appointing a service agent under Florida law. Personal Jurisdiction…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · May 17, 2017
Hodjera v. BASF Catalysts LLC (2017)
…moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. The court found no general jurisdiction because the company was not at home in Washington. It found no specific jurisdiction because the plaintiffs did not allege that the…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · April 26, 2019
Gayoso v. Nissan North America (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…assert it with specificity in its answer, and general denials do not preserve it. Where the parties' experts rely on conflicting studies, issues of fact on general and specific causation preclude summary judgment. Causation; Expert Testimony…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · November 20, 2019
Temperino v. Amchem Prods. (2019)
…cigarettes a day for about 37 years. Honda moved for summary judgment, arguing plaintiff could not prove general or specific causation. Several other defendants asked the court to bar plaintiff's medical experts and, if successful…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · May 17, 2017
Hodjera v. BASF Catalysts LLC (2017)
…where the plaintiff's exposure occurred in Toronto. General jurisdiction was lacking because the defendant was not at home in Washington. Personal Jurisdiction Worksites: Toronto worked with brakes and clutches on Volkswagen vehicles Toronto 1986-1994