Author: Expert Witness Profiler
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Psychology Expert’s Testimony on the Process of Memory Formation Admitted
In October 2019, Nan Morgan McCartney was severely burned while attempting to start a fire in her backyard firepit. She used a plastic gasoline container manufactured by Scepter. McCartney has given multiple different accounts of the incident over time, but the most recent account (in her deposition) is that she was trying to pour gas from…
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Recreational Vehicle Expert’s Cost-of-Repair Opinion Admitted
Naomi and Christopher Pershing (and their revocable Pecan Trust) sought compensation from Nexus RVs, LLC and Navistar, Inc. for their recreational vehicle, which they called defective. Nexus offered Thomas Fribley as an opinion witness. On March 14, 2025, the Pershings filed a motion to exclude an opinion from Fribley under Federal Rule of Evidence 702…
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Accounting Expert’s Price Erosion Damages Opinion Admitted
Plaintiffs Syntel Sterling Best Shores Mauritius Limited, and Syntel, Inc., (collectively, “Syntel”) initiated this action against The TriZetto Group, Inc. (“TriZetto”) and Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (“Cognizant,” and, collectively, “Defendants”), alleging breach of contract, intentional interference with contractual relations, and misappropriation of confidential information. Syntel filed a motion to exclude the price erosion damages opinion…
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Testimony of Rehabilitation Expert Admitted Despite Reliance on Medical Opinions
This is a personal-injury action arising out of a motor-vehicle accident between Plaintiff Jose Ricardo Olvera-Velazquez and Defendant Jose Hernandez De La Rosa. Defendant MVT Transportation LLC (“MVT”) has stipulated that Defendant De La Rosa was acting in the course and scope of his employment with MVT at the time of the accident. According to…
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ASL Expert’s Testimony on Language Proficiency Excluded
Marie Rose Lennox Wing was deaf and used American Sign Language (“ASL”) to communicate. She passed away after three visits to Dignity Health hospitals over the course of a month. Her estate and family members brought this lawsuit following her death. It argued that Dignity Health violated state and federal law by requiring family members…
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Toxicology Expert’s Report Exceeds the Bounds of Permissible Supplementation
Michelle Young, the surviving spouse of Ernest James Young and Amanda Fries, the daughter and heir of Young filed the underlying lawsuit alleging that Young’s death from pancreatic cancer was caused by his exposure to radioactive contaminants that were released by the Defendants’ negligent operation of a uranium processing plant in Gore, Oklahoma, near where…
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Mechanical Engineering Expert’s Opinion About the Clogged Float Valve Admitted
This is a product liability case involving Walmart’s sale of a pressure cooker that Plaintiff Vanessa Loftis claims injured her when the lid was able to be removed while the pressure cooker was—unbeknownst to her—still pressurized. During the depressurization process, pressure cookers release steam; according to Loftis, the steam on that night “lasted forever,” around…
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Expert’s Legal Conclusions Advocating for Class Certification Excluded
This putative class action was initiated by Plaintiffs, a group of individuals who are leaseholders of oil and gas leases, against Defendant XTO Energy Inc (“XTO”) alleging that XTO breached their leases when it deducted unreasonable and excessive post-production costs from their royalty payments. Therefore, XTO filed a motion to exclude certain opinions of Plaintiffs’…
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Land Valuation Expert’s Opinions About the Current Market Value of the Properties Admitted
Plaintiffs sought the partition and sale of a Boynton Beach property, a Miami property, and a West Palm Beach property (the “Properties”). The Defendants sought to exclude the opinions, analysis, and testimony of Lara Swanson, an expert witness retained by Plaintiffs to provide an opinion of current market value for the properties at issue in…
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Orthopedic Surgery Expert’s Opinions About an Aggravation of Pre-Existing Degenerative Disc Disease Admitted
Plaintiff Myles Childress brought his claims against Defendant Wal-Mart Stores East I, LP. after he allegedly sustained injuries while delivering goods to a Walmart store in Bridgeton, Missouri. Plaintiff raised claims against both Defendant Walmart and Walmart’s employee, an unknown Doe Defendant. Dr. Richard Kube is an orthopedic spine surgeon practicing in Peoria, Illinois. Defendant argued…
