Paralyzed Loader Driver Gets Opinions Tossed In Suit Over Burns From Seat Heater

Mealey's (November 9, 2018, 11:50 AM EST) -- MARSHALL, Texas — An expert for a skid loader manufacturer is sufficiently qualified to opine on the operation of the loader, but his opinions on how injuries to a paraplegic loader operator could have been prevented are unreliable, a Texas federal magistrate judge found Nov. 7 in excluding the expert’s testimony from trial (John K. Stephenson v. Caterpillar, Inc., et al., No. 2:16-cv-00071, E.D. Texas, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 190793)....