Architect Can Testify In Fall Case Against Hotel But Can’t Opine On New Repairs

Mealey's (January 17, 2023, 1:02 PM EST) -- SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A federal judge in Puerto Rico ruled that a hotel can cross-examine an architect who opines that a woman fell in the hotel’s stairway because of negligence to point out deficiencies in his conclusions but said the testimony is not inadmissible, though she agreed to strike a portion of his testimony that she found unfairly prejudicial....