26 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · Ohio Court of Appeals · December 31, 2007 · in the opinion
Penn v. A-Best Prods. Co. (2007)
…Rimmel, for appellee Mobil Corporation. Oldham & Dowling, Reginald S. Kramer, and Terri L. Nass, for appellees General Electric Company and CBS Corporation. Trenz, McKay & Knabe Co., LPA, and Tim McKay, for appellee R.E. Kramig. Tucker…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 5, 2018
Matter of Adesso v. AO Smith Water Prods. Co. (2018)
…Brooklyn Navy Yard Brooklyn 1953-1957; boilermaker, truck mechanic, and general helper Thatcher Glass Elmira 1957-1996; fireman USS Des Moines 1957-1961; boiler maintenance mechanic Happauge School District 1976-1982; welder USS Mindoro 1948-1952…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · July 23, 1993 · in the opinion
Maiorana v. United States Mineral Prods. Co. (In re Joint Eastern & Southern Dist. Asbestos Lit., 1993)
…in which HRH complained that the general contractor was not cleaning up the dust from the asbestos spraying. Although Castagna dismisses the examples of constructive notice as "these obscure references" which are "wholly insufficient as a…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · April 6, 1995 · in the opinion
Maiorana v. United States Mineral Prods. Co. (In re Joint Eastern & Southern Dist. Asbestos Lit., 1995)
…479 (1986). \[4\] Bjorn Hilt et al., Asbestos Exposure, Smoking Habits, and Cancer Incidence Among Production and Maintenance Workers in an Electrochemical Plant, 8 AM.J.INDUS.MED. 565, 571 (1985). \[5\] The court pointed out…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Antioxidants in the chemoprevention of colorectal cancer and colorectal adenomas in the general population: a systematic review and meta-analysis
…to assess the present evidence on the effect of antioxidants on the incidence of colorectal neoplasms in the general population. A systematic review of randomized controlled trials was undertaken comparing antioxidants alone or in combination with…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Squamous cell carcinoma of the colon in an asbestos worker
This case report from Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, UK, described one 66-year-old man with squamous cell carcinoma of the colon at the hepatic flexure. He was known to have pleural plaques caused by…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · August 14, 2017
Duty v. Trz Realty, LLC (2017)
…saying asbestos causes colon cancer. After a hearing, the trial court found he was not qualified on general or specific causation, mainly because he was not an epidemiologist or colorectal specialist. Plaintiffs then conceded they lacked…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 25, 2019
Gallagher v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…the plaintiffs' claims against it go forward. A defendant cannot get summary judgment by pointing to gaps in the plaintiff's proof. Where the parties' experts conflict on general and specific causation, issues of fact remain…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 29, 2019
Albin v. Mannington Mills (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…make a prima facie showing that its product did not contribute to the illness, and conflicting expert affidavits on general and specific causation raise fact issues for trial. Causation; Expert Testimony Worksites: House on Beach Street…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Synchronous Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma and Sigmoid Adenocarcinoma: a Challenging Clinical Entity
…the final diagnosis was sigmoid adenocarcinoma with synchronous MPM. The patient was started on palliative chemotherapy (capecitabine) without active management of MPM because of her general condition. She was followed up with a good clinical course…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
A case-control study of the relationship between the risk of colon cancer in men and exposures to occupational agents
…who were diagnosed with colon cancer between 1979 and 1985. They compared them with 2047 control men: 1514 with other cancers and 533 from the general population. Chemists and industrial hygienists turned each man's job…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Absence of post-transcriptional RNA modifications of BCL10 in human malignant mesothelioma and colorectal cancer
…lines. SSCP revealed several different band shifts in these samples. The nucleotide changes observed in the cDNA samples were also seen in matched genomic DNA and corresponded to known polymorphisms in the general population. Thus, we…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
The costs and effects of screening for cancer among asbestos-exposed workers
…We have reviewed the data on the general effectiveness of screening for the two most common cancers found in these workers (lung cancer and colo-rectal cancer) and have compared the relative benefits expected from screening…
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Court case · Ohio Court of Appeals · February 3, 2011 · in the opinion
Welsh v. Ford Motor Co. (2011)
…its first assignment of error, Ford contends that plaintiff failed to meet the initial threshold of establishing that Welsh was exposed to asbestos and had a greater risk of exposure than the general public. {¶ 27} Ford…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Colon cancer, physical activity, and occupational exposures. A case-control study
…High-grade exposure to asbestos or to organic solvents gave a two-fold increased risk. Regarding exposure to trichloroethylene in general, a slightly increased risk was found whereas such exposure among dry cleaners gave a seven…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · February 27, 1992 · in the opinion
Betts v. Manville Personal Injury Trust (1992)
…that would include fibrosis of the lungs. Plaintiffs do not contend the answers to the special interrogatories are inconsistent with the general verdicts as to Deitz and Lehr. The language employed is not ambiguous or confusing…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio · September 5, 2018 · in the opinion
Alexander v. Honeywell International, Inc. (2018)
…This argument misses the mark. It is not "brake dust" in general that is being blamed as the causative agent in this case, but the asbestos particles contained in the Bendix brake dust from the relevant…
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Disease
Asbestos and Colon Cancer
…53). Asbestos insulation workers, one of the most heavily exposed trades of all, had about 59% higher risk than expected from general-population rates (1.59; 1.14 to 2.23), the highest of any group…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Thymidylate synthase: a critical target for cancer chemotherapy
…Drug Administration as first-line therapy for patients with advanced colorectal cancer. As the number of TS inhibitors available for general clinical use increases, further research is needed to elucidate the critical molecular and biochemical elements…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Asbestos and colon cancer: lack of association in a large case-control study
…frequency or duration of exposure increased. This study suggests not only that occupational exposure to asbestos is not a risk factor for colon cancer in the general population of Los Angeles, but also that observed associations…