Mealey's (January 24, 2023, 10:55 AM EST) -- LOS ANGELES — A company’s designated corporate witness is still just a lay witness subject to the same rules as any other litigant and may testify only to personal knowledge in an asbestos-talc case even in the face of a latent disease and the associated evidence difficulties, a California appeals court found Jan. 23 in reversing summary judgment after finding that a trial court erred in allowing Avon Products Inc.’s witness to channel knowledge she allegedly learned during an investigation....