Tag: Expert Testimony
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Fire Investigation Expert Witness Was Allowed to Opine on the Defective Candle
Plaintiffs Robert and Jill Motto brought this action to recover for property damage to their home arising from a fire allegedly caused by a defective candle manufactured and sold by Defendants Newell Brands and The Yankee Candle Company. During the litigation, Plaintiffs retained two experts, Roger Spadt and Dr. John Golder, to investigate the origin…
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Insurance Expert’s Legal Opinions Excluded
On August 27, 2020, Hurricane Laura made landfall in Southwest Louisiana. In the original complaint, The Pentecostal Church of DeQuincy (“TPCD”) alleged that it sustained damage from the hurricane and that Church Mutual underestimated the cost of repairs. The five (5) buildings considered “Covered Property” at issue in this litigation are identified as: (1) the…
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Law And Legal Expert Allowed to Opine on Firm Management
This case features a collapsed Ponzi scheme, more than 200 investor-victims, and a federal equity Receiver. The Receiver sued Baker Donelson law firm and two of its former employees— individuals now with federal criminal convictions—for aiding and abetting, civil conspiracy, and other claims under Mississippi law. She seeks to hold them accountable for “the unsustainable…
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Psychology Expert Was Allowed to Opine on Voluntary Adult Sex-Work Subculture
Defendants Brandon Washington and Maria Georgianna Palm are charged with various crimes arising out of their scheme to recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, obtain, and maintain vulnerable women, and to perform commercial sex acts for their financial benefit via threats of force, fraud, and coercion. The United States of America filed a motion in limine…
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Law And Legal Expert Was Not Allowed to Opine on Notaries
This case features a collapsed Ponzi scheme, more than 200 investor-victims, and a federal equity Receiver. The Receiver sued Baker Donelson law firm and two of its former employees— individuals now with federal criminal convictions—for aiding and abetting, civil conspiracy, and other claims under Mississippi law. She seeks to hold them accountable for “the unsustainable…
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Construction Expert Allowed to Opine on Repair Estimates
This matter involves an insurance claim for damages associated with hurricane Laura. On or about September 16, 2020, Plaintiff, The Pentecostal Church Of Dequincy (“TPCD”) retained a public adjuster, Chris Tremaine. Tremaine worked with Church Mutual’s field adjuster, Trey Johnson, to schedule a joint inspection of TPCD’s campus on September 30 and October 1, 2020.…
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Law Enforcement Expert Allowed to Opine on the Dynamics of Consensual Adult Sex Work
Defendants Brandon Washington and Maria Georgianna Palm are charged with various crimes arising out of their scheme to recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide, obtain, and maintain vulnerable women, and to perform commercial sex acts for their financial benefit via threats of force, fraud, and coercion. The government retained FBI Supervisory Special Agent Steven Vienneau to…
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History Expert’s Testimony on Discriminatory Motivations Admitted
For well over a century, the Commonwealth of Virginia has disobeyed a federal law designed to protect the right of former enslaved people to vote. When the United States started to readmit the rebellious slave states after the Civil War, Congress feared that the former Confederate powers would invent new crimes with which they could…
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Petroleum Engineering Expert’s Testimony on Offshore Rig Operations Admitted
This matter concerns an incident aboard the Valaris 144 while the vessel was performing offshore drilling services in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. Caleb Kittrell worked as a roustabout for Ensco Offshore on board the vessel owned by Rowan Offshore Luxembourg. On December 27, 2023, Kittrell was instructed to disconnect a jet…
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Accounting Expert Was Allowed to Opine on the Lease Auditing Process
600 Cleveland owned a commercial office building located at 600 Cleveland Street, Clearwater, Florida 33601 from September 9, 2013, to April 1, 2024. Bank of America, N.A. (BANA) and 600 Cleveland assumed a lease agreement originally entered into by other parties on December 1, 1986, and both were bound by the agreement. This lawsuit arises…
