Category: Industrial Engineering Expert Witness
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Psychiatry Expert’s Testimony Rejected for Injecting Subjective Characterizations
On September 3, 2020, Plaintiffs Dalila Yeend and Bounnam Phimasone (together with Elvin Minaya Rodriguez, Lisa LaPointe, and Shantadewie Rhamee, “Plaintiffs”) commenced this action against Akima Global Services, LLC a/k/a AGS (“AGS” or “Defendant”) in New York State Supreme Court, asserting state law claims pertaining to their civil immigration detention at the Buffalo Federal Detention…
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Industrial Engineering Expert Witness Permitted to Testify that the Subject Iron Worker Was Defectively Designed
Plaintiff Richard Culley (“Plaintiff” or “Culley”) initiated this action on September 9, 2020, seeking redress for claims of manufacturing defect, breach of expressed or implied warranties, design defect and failure to warn arising from an incident on December 9, 2017 (the “accident”) wherein Plaintiff, while working for Hudson River Truck and Trailer (“Hudson”), sustained serious…
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Industrial Engineering Expert Witness’ Testimony Admitted Despite Reliance on Tools not Adopted by any Industry
A district judge in Texas admitted the testimony of an industrial engineering and workplace ergonomics expert in order to get a better sense of the lifting activities performed by the Plaintiff on the date of her alleged injury. Plaintiff (“Yoakum”) filed this personal injury lawsuit against Tyson after an injury she allegedly sustained while working the…