Court Affirms Exclusion Of Causation Expert, Judgment In Asbestos-Lung Cancer Case

(June 24, 2016, 10:56 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A trial judge properly excluded expert testimony, agreeing that the partial deposition testimony he saw provided an insufficient ground on which to opine about the link between a man’s asbestos exposure and his fatal lung cancer, and without that testimony, summary judgment was appropriate, a Louisiana appeals court held June 22 (Dwayne Boudreaux, et al. v. Bollinger Shipyard, et al., No. 2015-CA-1345, Gerilyn Cook, et al. v. Bollinger Shipyard, et al., No. 2015-C-0958, La. App., 4th Cir.; 2016 La. App. LEXIS 1229)....

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