112 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 6
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Cold-Molded Thermoplastic
…century as an alternative to hot-molded Bakelite and similar phenolic systems. Manufacturers such as General Electric and Westinghouse used cold-molded asbestos compositions from roughly the 1910s through the 1970s for electrical insulators, arc chutes…
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Daubert Standard
…follow the older Frye standard. Origin The standard comes from the 1993 U.S. Supreme Court decision Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, later refined by General Electric Co. v. Joiner (1997) and Kumho Tire Co. v…
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Synchrotron X-ray Microscopy
…elemental composition, and chemical state at a scale far beyond what ordinary laboratory microscopes can achieve. Origin Synchrotron radiation was first observed in 1947 at General Electric, and dedicated synchrotron light sources for scientific imaging emerged…
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Selikoff Studies
…or mine workers but insulators who used finished asbestos products, with what the authors called "relatively light, intermittent" exposure.1 The authors also wrote that electricians, plumbers, sheet-metal workers and steamfitters working beside the insulators…
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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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General Maritime Law
General maritime law is the body of federal, mostly judge-made law that governs injuries and other disputes connected to ships and navigable waters. In asbestos cases it often applies to sailors, Navy veterans and others…
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Release
…belong to the injured person, a spouse and, after death, the estate and family. Significance in Asbestos Context An asbestos release may be general, covering all claims including future diseases, or limited, covering only the disease…
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Gencor
Gencor (General Mining Union Corporation) was a major South African mining conglomerate that owned and operated several asbestos mines, most notably crocidolite (blue asbestos) and amosite (brown asbestos) operations in the Northern Cape and Northern Transvaal…
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Gefco
Gefco refers to General Engineering & Foundry Company, an industrial supplier whose name appears in asbestos litigation in connection with equipment, foundry products, and industrial components that contained or were used with asbestos-containing materials. The name…
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Pneumoconiosis
Pneumoconiosis is the general medical term for a group of lung diseases caused by inhaling mineral or metal dust over time. The dust particles lodge in the small airways and air sacs, where the body's…
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Background Exposure
Background exposure is the small, unavoidable amount of asbestos nearly everyone breathes from natural sources and general environmental contamination, without any specific job or product involved. These levels are very low and account for only a…
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Healthy Worker Effect
…epidemiology in the 1970s, as researchers worked out how to correct for it. Significance in Asbestos Context Many asbestos studies compare death or cancer rates among workers with rates in the general population, which includes people…
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Causation
…this usually means showing both that asbestos exposure caused the disease (general causation) and that exposure to a specific defendant's asbestos was a substantial factor in causing it (specific causation). Origin The word comes from…
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Frye Standard
…United States, a 1923 federal appeals court decision that rejected an early lie-detector test because it hadn't gained general scientific acceptance. Frye governed expert evidence in federal courts for decades until the 1993 Daubert…
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Hearsay Exception
…of-court statements be used as evidence in court, even though the general rule bars repeating what someone said outside of court to prove it was true. Courts allow these exceptions when a statement has special…
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Mesothelioma Specialist
A mesothelioma specialist is a doctor with specific expertise in diagnosing and treating mesothelioma, a rare cancer that most general oncologists rarely see. These specialists, often thoracic surgeons or medical oncologists at major cancer centers, stay…
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Pleural Calcification Prevalence
…such as asbestos-exposed workers, residents near an asbestos source, or the general public. Researchers use this prevalence as a population-level marker of past asbestos exposure, because calcified pleural plaques are strongly associated with prior…
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Proportional mortality
…an epidemiological measure that compares the share of deaths from a specific cause in a defined group (such as workers in a trade) to the share of deaths from that same cause in the general population…
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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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standardized mortality ratio (SMR)
…been expected if that group had experienced the same death rates as the general population, after adjusting for age, sex, and time period. An SMR of 1.0 means the same risk as the general population…