2BInformed: Engaging with EPA, OSHA’s New Regulation, and Asbestos
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana Decedent James Grant Gooding was employed at various shipyards in Louisiana between 1970 and 1979. On March 4, 2020, he filed suit against a variety of premises...more
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, September 29, 2022 - The Callen Cortez (“Plaintiff”) matter has been previously reported by the Asbestos Case Tracker. At current issue is the...more
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, August 11, 2022 The late Robie Walls brought this asbestos action in early 2020 after a mesothelioma diagnosis. He alleged asbestos exposure from his service...more
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, July 20, 2022 - In this asbestos action, decedent Callen Cortez was diagnosed with mesothelioma following occupational and take-home exposure to...more
Under the now widely-adopted Daubert standard, courts evaluate expert testimony based on the principles and methodology underlying the expert witness’s opinion. Admissibility of expert testimony is not governed by whether the...more
The Supreme Court of Florida is poised to decide the constitutionality the Daubert standard for admissibility of expert testimony, resolving whether Frye or Daubert will be the governing standard going forward in Florida...more
Manufacturers of products that contained chrysotile asbestos won a major victory in Crane Co. v. DeLisle on Sept. 14, 2016, when Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal (Fourth DCA) reversed a verdict entered against a...more
Adding to the growing body of case law that rejects the so-called “every exposure” theory, a federal court in Louisiana has excluded specific causation opinions of a plaintiffs’ expert who relied on the theory, finding that...more