Justice: Automakers’ Expert Challenges Can’t Free Them From N.Y. Asbestos Case

Mealey's (May 25, 2021, 9:50 AM EDT) -- MINEOLA, N.Y. — Two automakers’ challenges to a man’s experts are premature, and while the defendants argue that any exposure was de minimis, they fail to eliminate the possibility that exposure to asbestos from their friction products led to a man’s lung cancer, a New York justice held April 10 in declining to exclude two experts and denying summary judgment....