18 results for “General Electric”
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Asbestos Products: The 15 Categories That Exposed Workers, Consumers, and Families
…gas, and general industry. Foundry sand additives, industrial filtration media, and laboratory equipment complete the category. The recovery picture combines the DII Industries Asbestos PI Trust with solvent corporate tort defendants (Union Carbide, Lincoln Electric, Hobart…
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Asbestos Claims for Seamen: The Jones Act and Maritime Law
…lung cancer, and asbestosis that trace back to their exposure on board the ships they served on. The law gives them a way to fight back. Under the Jones Act and general maritime law, seamen have…
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Workers' Compensation for Asbestos Exposure
From the 1930s through the 1980s, asbestos was a fact of life in American industry. Pipefitters, electricians, mechanics, shipbuilders, and factory workers handled it daily. They cut it, mixed it, installed it, and breathed it, often…
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Asbestos Exposure by Industry
…published a landmark study of 113 asbestos textile workers, demonstrating a tenfold increase in lung cancer mortality compared to the general population—even among workers with lower exposure levels than those who developed asbestosis2. By then…
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Understanding Asbestos Trust Claims
…funded by the bankrupt companies themselves and by proceeds from their insurance policies. The companies bought those general liability policies to protect themselves from liability lawsuits, and that protection included the asbestos lawsuits that eventually came…
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Asbestos Exposure in the Military
…Boiler technicians, machinist's mates, enginemen, pipefitters, and electrician's mates worked it directly, while cooks, clerks, and officers breathed it as bystanders in the same compartments. Submarine crews had it worst of all: the same…
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Asbestos Exposure by Occupation
…and the black adhesive under it. Roofer asbestos exposure — handling asbestos roofing felt, shingles, and flashing cement. Electrician asbestos exposure — drilling through asbestos walls and working around asbestos cloth, panels, and insulation. Vehicle and brake work…
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Asbestos Product Liability Lawsuits
…Pipefitters, insulators, shipyard workers, mechanics, electricians, and construction workers are among the occupations most commonly affected. Learn more about high-risk industries, occupations, and products. Secondary Exposure. You don't have to have worked with asbestos…
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Understanding Mesothelioma Lawsuits
…several factors including testing, peer review, error rates, and general acceptance? All federal courts and most states Frye Is the method generally accepted in the relevant scientific community? A minority of states, including several with heavy…
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Asbestos Lawsuits
…The meeting took place shortly before noon. The president of Johns-Manville was there. So was the company's general counsel, Vandiver Brown. One of the Unarco men asked the obvious question: Was Johns-Manville finding…
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What Our Clients Say
…a similar result in another. No compensation was provided for these testimonials. This page is provided for general informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. Every asbestos case turns on its own facts, exposure history…
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Asbestos Trust Claims: No Court Appearance Necessary
…Code were required to establish a trust fund to compensate victims, paid for by the company itself and by the general liability insurance policies it had bought to protect itself from liability lawsuits, including asbestos lawsuits…
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Asbestos Trust Annual Reports
…6M (−3.0%) $14.2M 20.0% Congoleum $148.1M +$1.8M (+1.3%) $8.7M 8.67% General Motors $130.1M +$617K (+0.5%) $11.3M 10.3% ACandS $123.3M −$842K (−0.7%) $10…
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2026 Asbestos Trust Payment Percentages & Mesothelioma Settlement Values
…3% and A.P. Green raised to 6.0% (April 2026). General Motors reduced to 10.3% and Yarway raised to 27.5% (December 2025). Quigley reduced to 13.3% (October 2025). Fuller-Austin raised to…
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Mesothelioma: What It Is, How It's Diagnosed, and How It's Treated
…get treated change my outcome? It can make a real difference. Mesothelioma is rare enough that most general oncologists see only a few cases a year, while specialty programs see it regularly. In a national study…
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Take-Home and Secondary Asbestos Exposure
…levels many times the federal limit, and the epidemiology shows family members of high-risk workers carrying roughly five times the mesothelioma risk of the general public.⁴ For mesothelioma, the science recognizes no safe threshold…
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Asbestos Trust Data
…1, 2026 GAF (G-I Holdings) Asbestos PI Settlement Trust 5% $155,000 November 23, 2022 Garlock (GST Settlement Facility) — — — General Motors (Motors Liquidation) Asbestos PI Trust 10.3% $175,000 December 3, 2025 J.T…
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Wildfires and Asbestos Exposure
…Firefighting has long exposed crews to asbestos in burning and collapsing buildings, and mesothelioma is more common among firefighters than in the general population. Workers who clear burned neighborhoods day after day need full respiratory protection…