8 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 13, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
William Bell served in the U.S. Navy in the 1960s as an engineman, machinery repairman and machinist mate and was regularly exposed to asbestos. Most exposure was on four ships, where maritime law was already settled as governing. He also claimed…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
…DOHSA does not bar a survival action, which proceeds under general maritime law. Under general maritime law a seaman's survivors may recover only pecuniary losses, but pre-death pain and suffering is treated as pecuniary…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · June 2, 2004 · in the opinion
Torrejon v. Mobil Oil Co. (2004)
…Torrejon was uncertain as to the length of time he was there. • General Electric — worked on boilers and turbines and the heating and cooling system. • Colonial House (a hotel) in Las Vegas — 1959 to early 1960…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana · August 14, 2020 · in the opinion
McAllister v. McDERMOTT, Inc. (2020)
…on the discharge side of the pump, and on top of the pump.\[37\] The electric motors had a transition piece that connected the motor to the pump casing, and there was an additional asbestos gasket…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · July 31, 2002 · in the opinion
Hebert v. Anco Insulation, Inc. (2002)
…Ed.2d 379 (1994). Only if the appellate court finds an abuse of that discretion may it examine prior awards of general damages to determine the amount the trier of fact reasonable could award. Theriot v…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · December 3, 2008 · in the opinion
Benard v. Eagle, Inc. (2008)
…exceptional circumstances, especially in light of the general speedy manner in which this Court handles applications for rehearing when this Court is notified of the urgency of the need for prompt action. In Centanni v. Ford…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · April 11, 2001 · in the opinion
Abadie v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. (2001)
…that economic theories which attempt to extrapolate the "value" of human life from various studies of wages, costs, etc., have no place in the calculation of general damages. See also Mistich v. Volkswagen of Germany, Inc…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · February 24, 2020 · in the opinion
Latiolais v. Huntington Ingalls, Incorporated (2020)
…prosecution." This reading is also unpersuasive. To start, the canon against surplusage yields to context as it expresses courts' "general \reluctan\[ce\] to treat statutory terms as surplusage.'" Bd. of Trs. of Leland Stanford Junior Univ…