230 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 12
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky · April 12, 2013
Stallings v. Georgia-Pacific Corporation (2013)
…keeping the case in federal court on General Electric's and Crane Company's federal officer removal. A government contractor may remove under the federal officer removal statute if it was acting under a federal agency…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · February 1, 2012
Conner v. Alfa Laval, Inc. (2012)
The court granted summary judgment to General Electric, Crane, Foster Wheeler, Warren Pumps, IMO Industries, Buffalo Pumps, Armstrong International and CBS, and denied the plaintiffs relief on their strict liability and negligence claims. Under maritime law…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · July 22, 2011
Conner v. Alfa Laval, Inc. (2011)
Four consolidated asbestos cases in the federal asbestos MDL in Pennsylvania involved Navy veterans or a shipyard worker who developed mesothelioma. Robert Conner, James Prange and James Stone served at sea on Navy ships as a machinist's mate and…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · October 21, 2013
Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation v. AW Chesterton Co., Inc. (2013)
Seven plaintiffs, or their estates, brought asbestos injury suits in New York County. Six had mesothelioma and one, Perez, had lung cancer. Their cases were part of an "In Extremis" trial group, and they asked for a joint trial. Their alleged…
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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, Northern District of Ohio · May 2, 2003
Lindstrom v. AC Products Liability Trust (2003)
…Wheeler, Aurora Pump, Gulf Engineering, Ingersoll Rand, Walworth, Crosby Valve, General Electric, Warren Pumps, Crane, A.W. Chesterton and Coffin Turbo Pump, and dismissed Lindstrom's claims against them with prejudice. Under maritime product liability law…
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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, Northern District of California · February 25, 2019
Harris v. CBS Corporation (2019)
Michael Roy Harris and his wife Elsie sued CBS Corporation, Ingersoll-Rand (IR) and other companies in California state court in Alameda County. They brought personal injury and loss of consortium claims. Michael Harris has malignant mesothelioma,…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts · May 4, 2009
Holdren v. Buffalo Pumps, Inc. (2009)
…Foster Wheeler, Viad, General Electric and Elliott Turbo Machinery) removed the case to federal court. They relied on the federal officer removal statute and the federal contractor defense, arguing the Navy would not have allowed asbestos…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · July 21, 2011
Conner v. Alfa Laval, Inc. (2011)
Four consolidated asbestos cases in the federal MDL-875 docket involved Navy-related mesothelioma. Robert Conner, James Prange and James Stone served aboard Navy ships, working with engine rooms, fire rooms and boilers. Hiram Peavy worked as a…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · August 30, 2017
Evans v. John Crane (In re Asbestos Litigation, 2017)
Icom Henry Evans and his wife sued several companies in Delaware state court, and the case was removed to federal court. Mr. Evans developed mesothelioma, which he attributed to asbestos-containing gaskets made by John Crane. He said he removed and…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · March 17, 2011 · in the opinion
Kiser v. AW Chesterton Co. (2011)
…Plaintiff argues that either Virginia's General Assembly was aware of what Plaintiff sees as a national trend in favor of adoption of the separate disease rule and embodied this trend when it amended Virginia's…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · March 16, 2011
Kiser v. AW Chesterton Co. (2011)
Phyllis Kiser, as executor of her husband Orvin Kiser, Sr.'s estate, brought a wrongful death suit in October 2010 against a group of companies whose asbestos-containing products were alleged to have caused his mesothelioma. He was diagnosed with…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · May 3, 2013
Ambruso v. Goulds Pumps (Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2013)
…D. Roosevelt electrical engineer 1950s-1980s; shipfitter and seaman in the United States Navy Brooklyn Navy Yard Brooklyn 1940s; shipfitter and seaman in the United States Navy USS Chicago 1940s; insulator 1950s-1990s; general laborer, bus…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · August 3, 1998 · in the opinion
Scheiding v. General Motors Corp. (1998)
…230, 67 S.Ct. 1146, 91 L.Ed. 1447.) Accordingly, "\[p\]reemption fundamentally is a question of congressional intent." (English v. General Electric Co. (1990) 496 U.S. 72, 78-79, 110 S.Ct. 2270, 110…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · June 4, 2004 · in the opinion
Wajer v. Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (2004)
…independent contract." Cutlip, 22 Md. App. at 683. The necessary control under § 343 is analogous to the control under § 414. Wells v. General Electric Co., 807 F. Supp. 1202, 1211 (D. Md. 1992). As discussed, supra…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin · January 22, 2016 · in the opinion
Ahnert v. Employers Insurance Company OF Wausau (2016)
…products. (Rhoades Aff., Ex. E at 64, 68-90.) The Oak Creek outage was an overhaul of a General Electric fossil fuel turbine, which required removal and reinstallation of insulation, including asbestos blankets, asbestos sheets, and…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · January 3, 2017 · in the opinion
Rhodes v. Mcic, Inc. (2017)
General Electric Company, Cross Defendant, represented by David J. Quigg, Meringer Zois and Quigg LLC & Donald S. Meringer, Meringer Zois and Quigg LLC. General Refractories, Co., Cross Defendant, represented by John Stewart Cobb, North and Cobb…
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · December 15, 2008 · in the opinion
Sarkozy v. AP Green Industries, Inc. (2008)
…FLOWSERVE CORPORATION, individually and as successor to The Duriron Company, Inc., FOSTER WHEELER CORPORATION, FROMM ELECTRIC SUPPLY CORP., GARLOCK, INC., GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, GENERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION, GENERAL SUPPLY COMPANY, GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, GOULDS PUMPS, INCORPORATED, GREENE…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · May 13, 2019 · in the opinion
Cameron v. Atlantic Richfield Company (2019)
…k/a ARCO; ASBESTOS CORP., LTD.; CBS CORPORATION, f/k/a Westinghouse Electric Corporation; CROWN CORK & SEAL COMPANY, INC.; FOSTER WHEELER ENERGY CORPORATION; GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY; LONE STAR INDUSTRIES, INC.; METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY; SABERHAGEN HOLDINGS…