Judge Denies Insurer’s Motion To Exclude Expert Testimony In Flood Coverage Suit

Mealey's (March 5, 2021, 1:18 PM EST) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal judge in Louisiana on March 2 denied an insurer’s motion to exclude the insured’s expert witness in a coverage lawsuit arising out of an August 2016 Louisiana flood, adopting the reasoning of another district judge who held that the insurer’s arguments to exclude the same expert go to weight of the evidence, not its admissibility, under Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharm., Inc.....