16 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · June 24, 2024
Jacob v. Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (2024)
…holding that General Electric's federal officer removal was timely and that the court had subject matter jurisdiction. A defendant's ability to remove under the federal officer removal statute does not depend on its acting…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · July 17, 2019
Bondurant v. 3M Company (2019)
…holding that General Electric and CBS Corporation (Westinghouse) properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute. A boilerplate disclaimer of claims arising from federal officers' acts does not defeat federal officer removal where the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 23, 2014
Laurent v. City of New Orleans (2014)
…M. Willett, USS Haas and USS Woodson. Laurent sued General Electric (GE) and CBS (formerly Westinghouse), among others, claiming they supplied the Navy with asbestos-containing turbines and equipment and failed to warn of the dangers…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · May 20, 2015
Meyers v. Chesterton (2015)
Debra Meyers and Ronald Palermo, adult children of Ronald Dummitt, sued in Louisiana state court for his wrongful death from malignant mesothelioma. Dummitt worked as a Navy boiler technician from 1960 to 1988 on naval vessels, and the plaintiffs…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · May 23, 2012
Najolia v. Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Inc. (2012)
…s motion to remand, holding that General Electric and CBS Corporation (Westinghouse) properly removed the case under the federal officer removal statute. A defendant may remove under the federal officer removal statute, 28 U.S.C…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 9, 2015
Laurent v. New Orleans City (2015)
Scott Laurent sued General Electric, CBS Corporation, Foster Wheeler and others in Louisiana state court for wrongful death and survival damages after the death of his father, Frederick Laurent, from mesothelioma in December 2013. The father…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · June 18, 2015
Meyers v. Chesterton (2015)
Debra Meyers and Ronald Palermo sued in Louisiana state court, alleging their father, Ronald Dummitt, died of malignant mesothelioma. He worked as a Navy boiler technician from 1960 to 1988 on naval vessels, and the plaintiffs allege he was exposed…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
William Bell served in the Navy in the 1960s as an engineman, machinery repairman and machinist mate and was exposed to asbestos, mostly on four ships. He was later diagnosed with mesothelioma in Louisiana in 2015 and died. His brother John Bell, a…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
…judgment to General Electric, Crane, Air & Liquid Systems (Buffalo), Aurora Pump, Atwood & Morrill, CBS, IMO Industries and Warren Pumps. Under the court's narrowed bare metal defense, a component maker can be liable under general maritime…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 4, 2016
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2016)
William Bell served in the U.S. Navy in the 1960s as an engineman, machinery repairman and machinist mate. The opinion says he was exposed to asbestos on four ships and while training at a Navy facility in Idaho. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · December 23, 2015
Zeringue v. Allis-Chambers Corp. (2015)
…jurisdictional claims with competent evidence. Crane did not produce the Navy contracts or design specifications. It offered general affidavits from a company officer and a retired admiral, written years before the suit. The court found these…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana · May 19, 2020
McAllister v. McDERMOTT, Inc. (2020)
…McAllister plaintiffs' damages claims, but limited recovery of loss of income and household services to the surviving spouse as executrix of the estate. Under general maritime law and the Jones Act, a decedent's pre-death…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · February 1, 2022 · in the opinion
Labarre v. Bienville Auto Parts Inc. (2022)
…1980s and 1990s) raising the question of Bienville's general knowledge about the dangers of asbestos-containing products.\[63\] Because there is at least some evidence that Bienville knew or should have known that the products…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · August 10, 2015 · in the opinion
Hayden v. 3M Company (2015)
…of its broad language and unique purpose, the federal officer removal statute has been interpreted to operate somewhat differently than the general removal provision. Unlike the general removal statute, which must be strictly construed in favor…