Missouri District Court reviews Railroad expert’s earnings to assess bias
The U.S. District Court of Missouri, Eastern Division recently held an ‘in camera’ review on the Defendant’s motion to compel the production of the Plaintiff’s Railroad expert witness‘s income.The...
View ArticleDiagnostic radiology expert witness need not be trained in statistics to...
The Eleventh Circuit recently reversed the exclusion of a diagnostic radiology expert witness testimony in a medical fraud case (U.S. v. Reddy), commenting that it was not necessary for the expert to...
View ArticleSix fire causation expert witness testimonies admitted in insurance claim...
Although the Federal Rules of Evidence do not explicitly authorize in limine rulings, the practice has developed pursuant to the district court’s inherent authority to manage the course of trials....
View ArticlePatent damages expert witness precluded in Ohio for relying on 25 percent rule
In its role as gatekeeper, the Court must exclude expert testimony that does not squarely comport with the Federal Rules of Evidence, including the Rule 702 requirements of qualifications, reliability,...
View ArticleForensic geology expert witness must identify the exact rules being violated:...
In an attempt to ‘fit’ the expert testimony with the issue to be resolved by the trial, the Kentucky District Court recently admitted a forensic geology expert witness testimony in part, saying the...
View ArticleInsurance expert excluded for drawing legal conclusions and offering...
In a breach of contract suit in Louisiana (SJB Group, LLC v. TBE Group, Inc.), the U.S. District Court for the Middle District granted the Plaintiff’s Daubert motion to exclude or limit the testimony...
View ArticleLaw enforcement expert witness excluded in Florida in fortune telling...
Experts may be qualified in various ways. While scientific training or education may provide possible means to qualify, experience in a field may offer another path to expert status. The Daubert...
View ArticleOne more ecology expert witness testimony admitted in the ongoing CERCLA lawsuit
After admitting the testimony of Plaintiff’s expert Dr. Bradley Sample and three more of the Defendants’ environmental expert witnesses, this time the Virgin Islands District Court admitted Plaintiff’s...
View ArticleAffirming exclusion of economic expert witness, Eleventh Circuit explains...
When an expert relies on inadmissible information, Rule 703 requires the trial court to determine whether that information is of a type reasonably relied on by other experts in the field. However, the...
View Article189 Accounting Experts who were mentioned in Court opinions/orders in 2013
The following is a list of forensic accounting expert witnesses who were mentioned in Court opinion/decisions in 2013. This list is not exhaustive and only for informational purposes. The inclusion of...
View ArticleNo need for experts to repeat the parties’ interpretation of a contract
Expert testimony generally does not help the trier of fact when it offers nothing more than what lawyers for the parties can argue in closing arguments or when it simply reiterates or recasts the...
View ArticleCourt excludes Patent Damages expert witness in California
In football, new schemes come and go faster than teenage fashion trends. One team enjoys certain success with a spread offense, and suddenly every team is running no-huddle with a quarterback shotgun...
View ArticleWells Fargo’s indemnity suit suffers setback as Michigan Court denies its...
In an indemnity suit arising out of a $5.4 million commercial loan for a property located in Taylor, Michigan; Plaintiff Wells Fargo Bank alleged that Defendants’ Geology Expert Witness was not...
View ArticleSan Joaquin County DA’s office gets a lesson in engaging experts in time
When should an attorney get in touch with an expert witness? And when do attorneys usually get in touch with expert witnesses? In an ideal world, the answer to both these questions would be – as early...
View ArticleAccident reconstruction expert witness and vocational analyst get reviewed in...
Recently, in the case of Southard v. Belanger, the Kentucky District Court reviewed the testimonies of an accident reconstruction expert witness and a vocational analyst – excluding the former and...
View ArticleDefendant poses Daubert challenge to its own expert witness in Indiana
A typical Daubert challenge is a motion wherein the validity and admissibility of a particular expert testimony is challenged by the opposing counsel. However, the Indiana District Court was recently...
View ArticleExcluding Psychiatric & Psychological Testimony/Experts with Motions in...
Motions in limine or Daubert motions are highly effective but underutilized vehicles to challenge and exclude prejudicial, unreliable and unscientific psychiatric and psychological testimony and steer...
View ArticleTelecommunications expert witness admitted in South Carolina
Cell Site Analysis (CSA) is a forensic technique used for geographically mapping a mobile phone or data device at the time a call or SMS, thereby confirming or disproving alibis and placing individuals...
View ArticleExpert Witnesses, Jurors and Facebook – how a Facebook message overturned a...
The Eleventh Circuit once noted “The American judicial system depends upon public confidence in the jury’s verdict.” However, the unseemliness of jurors using Facebook or Twitter to discuss their jury...
View ArticleMarine safety expert witness testimony partially admitted in Florida
Latest in the field of marine safety expert witness testimony is the Florida District Court ruling in MasForce Europe, BVBA v. Mastry Marine & Industrial Design, Inc. where the expert was partially...
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