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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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