12 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · California Supreme Court · May 23, 2016 · in the opinion
Webb v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2016)
…suppliers "to develop expertise regarding a multitude of different end-products and to investigate the actual use of raw materials by manufacturers over whom the supplier has no control." (Ibid.) Artiglio v. General Electric Co., supra…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 10, 2013
Webb v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2013)
The Court of Appeal reversed the trial court's judgment notwithstanding the verdict for Special Electric and directed that the original judgment on the jury's verdict for the Webbs be reinstated, with one justice dissenting…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · December 21, 2016 · in the opinion
Baeza v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2016)
…BACKGROUND According to the general allegations of the operative fourth amended complaint, David was then a 54-year-old male with mesothelioma who was environmentally exposed as a bystander to asbestos fibers supplied by Special Electric…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 30, 2013 · in the opinion
Melendrez v. Superior Court OF State OF California (2013)
…subd. (b).) The reason for this waiver should be obvious. As a general matter, when an individual verifies discovery responses, further discovery can be directed to that individual to determine the sources for the initial responses…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · March 4, 2009 · in the opinion
Ransom v. Calaveras Asbestos, Ltd. (2009)
…pipe between 1971 and 1976. While working with asbestos cement pipe, Mr. Cookus used an electric saw to cut pipe in a trench. Dust would blow all over the place. Mr. Cookus worked with the Alex…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 18, 2021 · in the opinion
Phipps v. Copeland Corporation LLC (2021)
…exposed to asbestos as a result of living for periods with his father, who as an electrician in the Navy came into contact with "asbestos-containing thermal insulation material." Mesothelioma, according to Copeland's medical expert…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · October 27, 2009 · in the opinion
Mahoney v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (2009)
…her work history sheets, from speaking to Joan and her attorney, and from his general knowledge of the work practices of using joint compound in installing drywall—which included sanding, which creates dust, and sweeping the…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 15, 2019 · in the opinion
Burch v. Certainteed Corporation (2019)
…There, a subcontractor's employee sued a general contractor for injuries caused by the collapse of the general contractor's scaffolding; Cal-OSHA provisions were introduced at trial to establish a duty of care and a…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · October 22, 2014
Izell v. Union Carbide Corporation (2014)
…visited jobsites Home construction jobsites in southern California mid to late 1970's; owner of a home construction business who visited jobsites Home construction jobsites in southern California 1970s; general contractor Construction projects 1960s and 1970s
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · November 21, 2014 · in the opinion
Izell v. Union Carbide Corporation (2014)
…which may be as little as three months." Though acknowledging a "general inference that Crocidolite \[asbestos\] is more liable to produce mesothelioma," the report cautioned that "\[e\]xoneration of \[Union Carbide's\] Chrysotile \[asbestos\] has not…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · November 19, 2020 · in the opinion
Mata v. Liberty Utilities (park Water) Corp. (2020)
…its employees in the construction and service departments working with asbestos, it is not reasonable to infer from the company's general safety consciousness alone, that it is highly probable that the company was aware of…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · December 14, 2006 · in the opinion
Quarles v. Advocate Mines Limited (2006)
…specialist in occupational medicine called by Quarles, testified not about any specific facts of this case, but about the evolving general state of knowledge in medicine, science and industry, and about the dangers of asbestos in…