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State Supreme Court Applies Net Opinion Rule

By Sean Wajert on March 30, 2015
Posted in Articles

When you are a parent, you are often tempted to answer the question “why?” with “because I say so.” Experts shouldn’t get away wit…
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Expert Engineering Testimony Improperly Admitted

By Sean Wajert on January 20, 2015
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products

A case from last week reminds us of the importance of appellate review of expert witness admissibility decisions, and the potential impact of junk sci…
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Each and Every Exposure Opinion Rejected

By Sean Wajert on January 12, 2015
Posted in Articles, Toxic Tort

A federal court recently excluded the specific causation opinions of a plaintiff’s expert who asserted the defendant was liable in an asbestos case un…
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Long-standing Case Arising from Hurricane Rejected

By Sean Wajert on July 28, 2014
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

Readers know we don’t have the resources here to update every case we post on, but here is an update on a case we posted about nearly six years ago. S…
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State Appeals Court Rejects Expert Testimony In Toxic Tort Case

By Sean Wajert on December 12, 2013
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

The Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently rejected the plaintiff’s expert’s opinion on causation, in an interesting Frye decision. See Snizavich v. …
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State High Court Rejects Mold Expert Opinion

By Sean Wajert on October 16, 2013
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

Here’s an interesting expert analysis that arises in the less common Frye context. In Chesson v. Montgomery Mut. Ins. Co., No. 97 (Md., 9/24/13), the …
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Supreme Court Denies Cert in Case Excluding Treater Opinions

By Sean Wajert on November 8, 2012
Posted in Articles, Drug and Device

Readers may recall our post about Simmons v. Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp., a case in which the Sixth Circuit affirmed the exclusion of plaintiff’s ex…
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State Supreme Court Affirms Exclusion of Experts’ Inferential Opinions

By Sean Wajert on September 6, 2012
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products

Follow our train of thought: we have posted about the misuse of the differential diagnosis concept, as plaintiff experts morph it from an accepted too…
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Court of Appeals Reverses Daubert Decision

By Sean Wajert on September 4, 2012
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products

A tip of the hat to our DRI colleague Mike Weston for alerting us to an interesting 10th Circuit opinion from a couple weeks ago, Hoffman v. Ford Moto…
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State Supreme Court Vacates Plaintiff Verdict After Trial By Ambush

By Sean Wajert on March 1, 2011
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products

The Mississippi Supreme Court has vacated a $4.5 million verdict in favor of plaintiffs in a case against defendant Hyundai over a serious car acciden…
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