Judge: Exclusion Of Unreliable Asbestos Causation Opinion Dooms Case

Mealey's (March 2, 2019, 10:21 AM EST) -- BOULDER, Colo. — An expert’s handful of hours researching asbestos with little to no information about the plaintiff’s work or exposures renders the testimony unreliable, a federal judge in Colorado held in excluding it and granting a railroad summary judgment on Feb. 21 (Roddy York v. BNSF Railway Co., No. 17-1088, D. Colo., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 27644)....