Author: Expert Witness Profiler
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Internet Marketing Expert Allowed to Opine on Claimed Damages
This case arises out a contractual dispute between Plaintiff Steelray Consulting, LLC (“Steelray”) and Defendant Overstock.com, Inc. (“Overstock”). Steelray alleged that it developed a “web scraping” technology that acts as a search engine for online vehicle sales and that it sold this technology to Overstock at a steep discount as part of a profit-sharing arrangement.…
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Maritime Expert Allowed to Opine on the Barge’s Condition
On September 28, 2020, HC&D and Cashman Equipment entered into a purchase and sale agreement for the offshore deck barge JMC 254, a 250-foot by 72-foot by 16-foot welded steel offshore deck barge. HC&D alleged that it was induced to purchase the barge and sustained damages as a result of Cashman Equipment’s fraudulent misrepresentations. Defendant…
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Roofing Expert Witness Allowed to Opine on the Specialty Tile
This is a hail damage case. The Plaintiff, First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lincoln, Nebraska, alleged that its roof was damaged in a hailstorm. Allegedly, the Defendant, Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company, wrongfully delayed or denied certain benefits under its insurance policy. Basically, the Plaintiff alleged that its clay tiles, aluminum gutters, copper flashing, and other…
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Dermatology Expert Not Allowed to Opine on Hair Loss
On January 19, 2023, Plaintiff Tamie Maddox filed her Complaint against Defendant Conopco, Inc. d/b/a Unilever Home & Personal Care USA, alleging that Defendant, a New York corporation with its principal place of business located at 700 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632, caused Plaintiff to suffer from hair loss after she used Defendant’s…
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Security Expert’s Legal Conclusions Excluded
This case arises from the shooting death of John Fuller, (the “Decedent”), and wounding of DaJohn Foster at the Winbranch Apartment Complex (the “Property”). Plaintiffs assert a premises liability claim based on Defendants’ alleged failure to take adequate steps to protect them from violent crimes committed by third parties not resident at the Property. Defendant…
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Naturopathic Medicine Expert Not Allowed to Opine on the Hospital Management of COVID-19
Plaintiff Vanessa Buss brought a disability accommodation claim against her former employer Defendant PeaceHealth. Buss offered the report of Dr. Colleen Huber, a naturopathic doctor, to support her assertion that PeaceHealth could have accommodated her by offering ivermectin as COVID-19 prophylaxis. PeaceHealth filed a motion to exclude Huber’s testimony because she is unqualified “to render…
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Social Work Expert Was Not Allowed to Opine on Trauma and Mental Health
This matter concerns Claudia Arias’ removal from the University of Washington Tacoma Bachelor of Arts in Social Work (“BASW”) Program. Defendants filed motions to exclude Plaintiff’s expert witnesses Allison Osborne and Merrill A. Cohen. Social Work Expert Witness Allison Osborne, MSW, LICSW, SUDP is a forensic social worker with almost a decade of experience working…
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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Expert Was Allowed to Opine on Long-Term Care
Mark McCown was working as a locomotive engineer for Defendant Norfolk Southern Railway Company at the Bulls Gap, Tennessee Rail Yard. McCown was standing on the ballast slope next to the track when the rock he was standing on gave way and McCown fell onto his backside. He immediately experienced pain upon his fall and…
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Construction Expert Allowed to Opine on Causes of Project Delay
P&E is a Kansas-based contractor who entered into a design-build contract with WI RNG Hub North, LLC, for a renewable natural gas production facility in Gillet, Wisconsin (the “Project”) to be completed by February 27, 2023. The Project included construction of two buildings to house process equipment for producing renewable natural gas from dairy cow…
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Flood Expert Was Not Allowed to Opine on the Foreseeability of the Flood
Defendants—Sanford, Sanford Health, and the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society—allegedly owned or operated the Good Samaritan Kissimmee Village (Good Samaritan), a senior-living complex located near Kissimmee, Florida. In 2017, Good Samaritan sustained then-unprecedented flood damage from Hurricane Irma that was purportedly exacerbated by a critical failure of the property’s waste-water treatment facility, resulting in contamination…
