6 results for “General Electric”
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General Causation
…whether an exposure caused harm. Significance in Asbestos Context For your case, general causation is often the easier half to establish for classic asbestos diseases, because the scientific link between asbestos and mesothelioma is well accepted…
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Specific Causation
…Significance in Asbestos Context Specific causation is usually where asbestos cases are won or lost, because general causation is rarely in serious dispute for mesothelioma. The patient's experts must connect documented exposures to this tumor…
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Kiviluoto 1960
…visible pleural changes on chest X-rays could serve as a marker of past asbestos exposure in a general population. Origin The study was authored by Finnish radiologist Raimo Kiviluoto and published as a supplement to…
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Bradford Hill Criteria
…and diseases like mesothelioma and asbestosis satisfies the Bradford Hill considerations strongly, which is why that general causation is well settled and rarely seriously disputed in court. Your case will more often turn on specific causation…
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IARC Classification
…in 1971, and asbestos was among the first agents it evaluated. Significance in Asbestos Context The Group 1 classification is one of the strongest pieces of general-causation evidence available in an asbestos case. It reflects…
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amphibole hypothesis
…What Asbestos Is: How and Where It Is Used (undated), p. 2 UC-3937: Asbestos International Association Director-General's Notes for Associations (1980), p. 17 UC-5123: Union Carbide Corporation's Responses to Plaintiffs' Standard…