7 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · May 28, 2008
Williams v. American Optical Corporation (2008)
A group of Florida plaintiffs, including a personal representative for Wayne Smith, sued American Optical and other companies for asbestosis, which is lung disease and pleural thickening from asbestos exposure. They filed suit before Florida's 2005…
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Court case · Florida Supreme Court · July 8, 2011 · in the opinion
American Optical Corporation v. Spiewak (2011)
…does not accrue, for limitations purposes, until the injured party discovers or has a "duty to discover the act constituting an invasion of his legal rights." Creviston v. General Motors Corp., 225 So. 2d 331, 334 …
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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 · Florida Supreme Court · March 17, 1988 · in the opinion
Celotex Corp. v. Meehan (1988)
…allow an expansion of a statute of limitations period when the change is made before the cause of action is barred by the prior statutory limitation period. Corbett v. General Engineering & Machinery Co., 160 Fla. 879…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · December 31, 1985 · in the opinion
Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Cox (1985)
…at 120. The rule against splitting was designed to function in precisely the opposite manner and to rigidly apply it here would do "violence to the essence and purpose of the general rule." Martinez-Ferrer v…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · February 5, 1985 · in the opinion
Meehan v. Celotex Corp. (1985)
…of the negligent act. Indeed, as Gaboury itself says: "In determining the proper forum in which to bring suit under the general statute fixing venue where the cause of action \arose', or \accrued', the \injury occurred…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · March 6, 1984 · in the opinion
Copeland v. Celotex Corp. (1984)
…This defect is the cause of the alleged injury, and in a very general sense its existence must constitute under the respective theories of recovery a breach of a duty, a breach of a warranty and…