378 results for “General Electric”, page 9 of 19
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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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Court case · California Court of Appeal · July 23, 2018
Rudolph v. Rudolph and Sletten, Inc. (2018)
…his wife Pamela sued Rudolph and Sletten, Inc. (R&S), a general contracting company started by Allen's father. They alleged Allen developed mesothelioma from asbestos. According to the complaint, he was exposed as a child…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · April 14, 2020
Montell v. Kaiser Gypsum Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…and cross-claims against it, and denied the plaintiffs' cross-motion for jurisdictional discovery. A New York court lacks general jurisdiction over a corporation not incorporated or headquartered in New York, and lacks specific jurisdiction under…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · June 4, 1991
Bergeron v. Celotex Corp. (1991)
…1989. He had worked for Foster Wheeler as an ironworker from February to March 1967, when it was the general contractor building a steam generator at a plant in Michoud, Louisiana. Plaintiffs did not dispute that…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · August 14, 2017
Duty v. Trz Realty, LLC (2017)
…saying asbestos causes colon cancer. After a hearing, the trial court found he was not qualified on general or specific causation, mainly because he was not an epidemiologist or colorectal specialist. Plaintiffs then conceded they lacked…
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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 · Florida District Court of Appeal · September 6, 2006
Fernandez v. Union Carbide Corp. (2006)
…raising evidence issues. At trial, medical records from his general physician's chart surfaced that neither side had seen before, including a pulmonologist's report. The trial court admitted that report but excluded handwritten notes of…
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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 · Indiana Court of Appeals · March 17, 1999
Novicki v. Rapid-American Corp. (1999)
…and Rapid-American conceded it did not. The case therefore fell under section 5, the general product liability limitation and repose provision. Because the parties had not briefed section 5, the court remanded for further argument…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · February 27, 1986
Kisor v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
…in the 1940s and 1950s, and argued that it could not be liable for a danger it did not know about. The jury returned a general verdict for Owens-Illinois. The Ninth Circuit, applying Washington law…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · July 2, 1990
White v. Celotex Corp. (1990)
…The Ninth Circuit affirmed. It held that the defendants' general sale of asbestos insulation during those years was not evidence that they supplied the asbestos Edward encountered. It also found market share liability unsuited to asbestos…
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Court case · Oregon Court of Appeals · December 8, 2021
Hoff v. Certainteed Corp. (2021)
…several companies, including Kaiser Gypsum, saying he was exposed to asbestos in drywall joint compound. Hoff worked for general contractor R.A. Gray Company, where he framed and finished buildings while drywall was sanded nearby, and…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 26, 2019
Decanio v. Kohler Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…use or misuse, so that question was for a jury. Product Identification; Failure to Warn; Design Defect Worksites: New York general construction laborer, Local 3A, clean-up crew removing boiler parts New York 1958 to 1966
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · May 26, 2021
Pistone v. American Biltrite, Inc. (2021)
…plaintiffs' claims against them continue. In toxic tort cases an expert opinion must show exposure, general causation and specific causation, and conflicting expert opinions on these points raise a credibility question for the jury rather than…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division · May 21, 2024
Seen v. Kaiser Gypsum Co. (Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2024)
…suffering award that deviates materially from reasonable compensation under CPLR 5501(c) must be reduced or retried, and under General Obligations Law § 15-108 settlement amounts paid by settling defendants are deducted from the total award…
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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 · 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 18, 2019
Babcock v. Watts Water Technologies (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…a Delaware company based in Massachusetts and did not exist before 1985. The court found it had preserved the defense in its answer but held there was no general jurisdiction in New York. On specific jurisdiction…