8 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia · November 19, 2015 · in the opinion
Wilson v. AC&S, Inc. (2015)
…2015. ECF No. 27. Plaintiff's original complaint\[1\] named Westinghouse and General Electric ("GE"), as well as 20 additional defendants\[2\] that have all since been dismissed from the case. After the cause of action…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia · July 19, 1984 · in the opinion
Joyce v. AC & s., Inc. (1984)
…asbestos insulation materials. Plaintiff, an industrial electrician who had worked with asbestos insulation from 1948 to 1972, claimed that inhalation of asbestos fibers and dust during that period had caused him to develop mesothelioma, a cancerous…
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Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · January 10, 2013
Kiser v. AW Chesterton Co. (2013)
…accrued at the first diagnosis, asbestosis, not the later mesothelioma diagnosis. The court said any change must come from the General Assembly. Two justices dissented. They would have treated mesothelioma as a separate cause of action.
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia · July 31, 1986 · in the opinion
Saunders v. HK Porter Co., Inc. (1986)
…concerns over admiralty law's preemption of "state regulation of matters traditionally within the ambit of local control," 764 F.2d at 227. Tort law in general, including the statutes of limitation applicable in tort cases…
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Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · August 31, 2017 · in the opinion
Cole v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company (2017)
…chemicals. Id. at 692. Each employee had previously executed a general release in the course of settling unrelated FELA claims. Id. These releases "appeared to settle all claims for all injuries past and future." Id. In…
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Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · September 22, 1989 · in the opinion
Roller v. Basic Const. Co. (1989)
…the time of occurrence of an "injury by accident" is ordinarily obvious. But the General Assembly, realizing that ascertainment of this critical point in time would present great difficulty in the case of the insidious onset…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia · October 20, 1981 · in the opinion
Large v. Bucyrus-Erie Co. (1981)
…was exposed to silica and asbestos dust while operating the machines. Of course, the general rule in Virginia is that the limitations period begins to run when the initial injury, even if relatively slight, is sustained…
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Court case · Virginia Court of Appeals · August 27, 2002 · in the opinion
Robertson v. DuPONT (2002)
…Williams to apply the special method for calculating average weekly wage set out in Code § 65.1-52 rather than the general method in Code § 65.1-6\[4\] may be explained by the fact that…