Expert Witnesses News & Reports
Expert Witness News, Articles, Reports and Reference Documents
Reports on, about and for expert witnessess, in and out of the courts.
This directory features reports on court decisions and statutory changes related to expert witneses and forensic consultants, including challenges to expert testimony, Daubert hearings and related matters
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Expert Witness Testimony Helps Trigger Mistrial
Aug 1 ’18 — Opining as to the cause of death of a pickup truck driver, an expert witness — in direct violation of the court’s instructions — assisted in causing a mistrial that the plaintiff’s attorney claims was deliberately done by Ford Motor Company’s attorney.
Vocational Expert’s Job Estimates Without Explanation Unreliable: 7th Circuit
Jul 31 ’18 — With job number estimates possibly “conjured out of whole cloth, ” the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a vocational experts’ opinion on the availability of work for a woman severely disabled by a brain tumor.
Wrong Assumptions Get Expert Tossed With Med-Mal Case
Jul 27 ’18 — Assuming a testosterone gel was used as prescribed, an expert opined the medication caused his plaintiff’s deep vein thrombosis, only to have the plaintiff admit in deposition that he used half-doses of the medication sporadically, and applied it wrongly
Failing to Rule Out Unknown Causes, Expert's Toxic Testimony Tossed
Jun 18 ’18 (Updated Jun 22 ’18) — Failing to address unknown causes for a plaintiff’s leukemia, a causation expert witness was reasonably excluded by the trial court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit recently ruled, dismissing the plaintiff’s appeal.
Trademark Expert Fails Daubert on Squirt Survey
Jun 22 ’18 — Diverging from standard methodologies may provide the desired results for a report, but it may not pass a Daubert challenge, as this trademark infringement case aptly demonstrates.
Expert Witness Convicted of Obstruction of Justice
Jun 19 ’18 — Embellishing qualifications can backfire on expert witnesses; lying can get one jail time. Just ask “Doctor” Byrd.
Lack of Foundation Gets Expert Witness Excluded: Minn. Ct. App.
May 30 ’18 — What an expert witness sees as sufficient foundation for a professional opinion may not be the same as a court, as evidenced by the exclusion of expert testimony in a manufacturer liability case involving the crash of a single-engine airplane.
Testifying Medical Experts Need Not Be Specialists in the Malady: NJ Appellate
May 22 ’18 — An medical expert witness need not be a treating specialist of the malady to explain it on the witness stand, a New Jersey appellate panel has ruled, upholding the lower court finding that the doctors were not substantially liable.
Expert Testimony Excluded as Legal Opinion
May 21 ’18 — Expert witnesses may not provide conclusions equivalent to legal opinions, a Florida federal judge has ruled in partially excluding the testimony of a Trademark expert witness.
Expert Testimony Timing Key To Prosecution of Bill Cosby
May 10 ’18 — At what stage of a trial an expert witness is placed on the stand can be key to the impact of that testimony, as the 2017 mistrial and 2018 retrial of comedian Bill Cosby well exemplify.