Expert Testimony Limited In Suit Seeking Insurance Coverage For Emotional Distress

Mealey's (December 5, 2017, 12:58 PM EST) -- MISSOULA, Mont. — One medical expert cannot opine that the actions of a beauty school caused 16 students to suffer emotional distress due to lack of reliability in the expert’s methods, but a second expert can offer her causation opinion based on her interviews with each of the students, a Montana federal judge held Dec. 4 in an insurance coverage declaratory judgment action (Breanne Walden, et al. v. Maryland Casualty Company, No. 13-222, D. Mont., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 198973)....