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A ‘Multiplicity of Experts’

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Experts, Medical malpractice

That description of a recent Norfolk Circuit Court case on the court’s Web site sounds like those English class assignments on collective nouns: a pack of hounds, a congress of baboons, a charm of hummingbirds.
In fact, Judge Everett Martin Jr.’s Nov. 14 opinion confronted a collection of experts the parties wanted to bring to court […]

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Safety report admissible, 4th Circuit says

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Experts, products liability

The family of a Dickenson County coal miner killed in a 2003 mining accident will get another chance to prove their products liability claims against the manufacturers of a mining machine’s remote control device that was strapped to the miner’s body.
On March 12, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Judge Jim Jones’ grant […]

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Experts’ reports

March 15th, 2007 · No Comments · Discovery, Experts

A discovery ruling in a black lung case may have ramifications for protecting work-product and confidential communications in other kinds of litigation.
Elm Grove Coal Company was trying to overturn black lung benefits awarded to a retired miner named Ivan Blake. The two physician experts who supported Blake’s claim admitted that Blake’s lawyer might have […]

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