Mealey's (September 18, 2017, 1:22 PM EDT) -- GREENBELT, Md. — A Maryland federal judge on Sept. 15 awarded summary judgment to a utility contractor on an insurance company’s claim that the contractor’s negligence caused a house fire, after excluding the insurer’s expert from testifying about the standard of care for the work at issue due to lack of a reliable methodology (American Strategic Insurance Corp. v. Scope Services, Inc., No. 15-2045, D. Md., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 149789)....