Category: Transportation Safety Expert Witness
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Transportation Safety Expert Witness’ Opinions Held to Consist of Abstract Propositions
This case stems from a very minor rear-end motor vehicle accident on March26, 2021, which resulted in slight bumper damage to Plaintiffs’ truck. Defendant Ryan Transport employed Defendant Cummings and was under dispatch for Defendant Lenk Express at the time of the subject accident. To begin with, Plaintiffs retained and identified Linda Day to testify,…
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Court Limits Transportation Safety Expert Witness’ Testimony After he Fails to Identify a Safety Rule Violation
A district judge in Pennsylvania limited the Transportation Safety Expert’s testimony about the Defendant’s failure to review safety and compliance data. Defendant Gateway Freight Systems, Inc., on behalf of Defendant Tempel Steel, retained Defendant Foxway Transportation, Inc. to transport a shipment of Tempel’s product from Tempel’s Canadian location to two locations in Pennsylvania. On October…
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Credentials and subjective opinion alone found insufficient for admitting expert testimony; Court rejects the testimony of transportation safety expert witness in personal injury suit
Please note that James Lewis later clarified that he was deprived of the opportunity to address the motion to exclude his testimony and motion for summary judgment, both filed in October, 2023. He learnt that the firm retaining him, McCathern, Shokouri, Evans, and Grinke, had withdrawn from the case on account of the Plaintiff, Rodney…
