Rhode Island Judge: Knowledge, Skills Permit Expert Causation Testimony

(June 14, 2017, 2:01 PM EDT) -- PROVIDENCE, R.I. — An expert’s knowledge and skills give him sufficient basis to testify regarding the cause of a man’s mesothelioma, a judge in Rhode Island held June 9 in rejecting the need for narrow specialization (Rosie K. Sweredoski, et al. v. Alfa Laval Inc., et al., No. 2011-1544, R.I. Super., Providence Plantation, 2017 R.I. Super. LEXIS 94)....

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