Mealey's (March 3, 2022, 2:40 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal district court in California was well within its discretion when it excluded an expert witness from testifying at trial in a long-term care insurance dispute stemming from an insured couple’s filing of allegedly fraudulent home health care claims, and a jury instruction it issued was not plainly erroneous, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeal panel ruled March 1 in affirming a verdict against the couple....