Judge: Expert’s Report Satisfactory, But Must Limit Opinion To General Causation

(March 9, 2017, 1:50 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — An expert’s conclusion that six defendants’ products couldn’t have caused a man’s mesothelioma impermissibly leaps to specific causation from his general causation opinion regarding chrysotile asbestos’ role in the disease, a federal judge in Louisiana held March 6 (William C. Bell, et al. v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp., et al., No. 15-6394, E.D. La., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31117)....

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