Expert’s Prior Exclusion Not Relevant To Admissibility Inquiry, Magistrate Says

Mealey's (February 16, 2018, 11:45 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — A biomechanical engineer is not precluded from testifying in a personal injury action over a car crash just because his opinions were stricken in another recent auto accident case, a New York federal magistrate judge ruled Feb. 14 in denying a bid by the injured driver to exclude the expert’s testimony (Craig Thomas v. YRC Inc., et al., No. 16-cv-6105, S.D. N.Y., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 24384)....