Author: Expert Witness Profiler
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Credit Reporting Expert Witness’ Opinions Based on his Experience And Research In Understanding Credit Score Risk-Analysis Admitted
A district judge in Florida admitted the opinions of a credit reporting expert witness after ruling that his opinions were an application of industry standards to facts that, if proven, might have helped demonstrate the satisfaction of Fair Credit Reporting Act standards by implication. Facts of the Case Plaintiff, Pablo Antonio Garcia (“Garcia”), as the…
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Architecture Expert Witness Fails to Establish the Reliability of his Stability Testing Methodology
A district judge in Louisiana limited the testimony of a renowned architect, citing a complete failure to explain the origin of his methodology or to point to scientific support for the technique that reliably predicts the likelihood that a canopy on display in a store is dangerous, despite his years of experience. To begin with,…
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Economics Expert Witness’ Testimony Based on Well-Tested Methods for Establishing Classwide Damages Admitted
A district judge in California refused to exclude the testimony of an expert economist despite objections raised against his methods for establishing classwide damages. The expert economist had adequately explained why his damages analysis would provide an accurate and common method to prove classwide damages. The Plaintiff contended that the Defendant Williams-Sonoma, Inc., and its…
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Pathology Expert Witness’ Testimony Excluded Due to Rampant Plagiarism
A district judge barred Harvard pathologist from testifying because his report was merely a wholesale adoption of International Agency for Research on Cancer’s (“IARC”) findings under the guise of his own expertise. In this toxic tort case that is part of a suite of companion cases, more than sixty Plaintiffs allege that Defendant Lockheed Martin…
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Podiatry Expert Witness’ Testimony Based on a Meaningful Connection between her Experience and the Cause of Injury Admitted
Florida Southern District Court decided that a podiatry expert witness’ causation theory with regard to severe burns was admissible after she compared and contrasted the Plaintiff’s health before and after the incident. This is a negligence action in admiralty for damages the Plaintiff suffered while vacationing aboard the Explorer of The Seas on May 14, 2022. The…
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Management Consulting Expert Witness’ Opinions on Market Valuation of a Trademark Excluded
This is a case under New York’s Debtor & Creditor law to set aside a February 2019 transfer of the “Halston” and “Halston Heritage” trademarks to Defendants. Comfortex, a garment manufacturer based in Hong Kong alleged that Xcel had used its domination over House of Halston (“HOH”) and its wholly owned subsidiaries (defined below as…
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Testimony of Mechanical Engineering Expert Witnesses Held to be Based on Thorough Review and Adequate Testing of the Product
Plaintiff India Smith (“Plaintiff”) filed this product liability lawsuit against Tabletops Unlimited, Inc. d/b/a TTU’s (“TTU”) on August 1, 2022. Plaintiff sought to recover damages from an August 24, 2020 incident in which she sustained burns on her chest, upper abdomen, and legs after her Pressure Cooker ejected hot contents on her when she tried to open…
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Product Defect Expert Witness’ Testimony Regarding Vehicle and Equipment Recalls Limited
Plaintiffs, Kevin and Vivian Hoog sought monetary damages following a fire, which they linked to a defective NDR 1292 gas absorption refrigerator (the “Refrigerator”) manufactured by Dometic. The Plaintiffs had the Refrigerator installed as original equipment in Plaintiffs’ 2007 RV, which Plaintiffs purchased from a private party around October 26, 2011. Dometic initiated recalls of select…
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Corporate Law Expert Witness’ Opinions on Ordinary Corporate Behavior Excluded
Plaintiffs, ECB USA, Inc. and Atlantic Ventures Corp. accused Savencia and Zausner, together with other persons and entities, of commiting a series of tortious acts, including, but not limited to, looting the assets of Schratter Foods Incorporated (“Schratter”), then fraudulently inducing Plaintiffs into executing an agreement to purchase all of Schratter’s shares (the “Stock Purchase…
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Film and Movie Production Expert Witness’ Opinion Assists Court by Clarifying Article’s Factual Elements
Plaintiffs Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay (collectively “Plaintiffs”) are the widow and son of Ehud Yonay (“Yonay”), the author of a magazine article “Top Guns” (the “Article”) published in California Magazine on April 21, 1983. The Article is an account of the experiences of F-14 pilots and radio intercept officers as they undergo training at…
