4 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · March 6, 1981 · in the opinion
Locke v. Johns-Manville (1981)
…the defendants in the November 1978 order appealed from. The record shows that since approximately 1948 plaintiff had been employed as an industrial electrician by various contractors at sites in Virginia, New York and North Carolina…
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Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · October 11, 2018 · in the opinion
Quisenberry v. Huntington Ingalls Incorporated (2018)
…a stranger, was non-fatally electrocuted when he touched defendant's transformer, "\[r\]easonable care requires those using dangerous agencies to avail themselves of the best mechanical contrivances and inventions in practical use which are effectual…
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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 · Virginia Supreme Court · January 10, 2013 · in the opinion
Ford Motor Co. v. Boomer (2013)
…more widely used terminology in Virginia as well as the terminology used by the circuit court in this case. \[3\] Although the General Assembly later established a discovery rule for asbestos-related diseases based on diagnosis…