Judge Allows Asbestos Experts, Says Cross-Examination Can Explore Flaws In Testimony

(April 30, 2024, 1:54 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana denied a pair of challenges and admitted seven experts in an asbestos case set to go to trial in early May, noting that disagreements over whether social contacts or environmental exposures were the cause of a man’s fatal contact with asbestos went to the reliability of the evidence rather than its admissibility and any defects in the testimony could be exposed on cross-examination....