A federal appeals court has underscored the high bar that expert witnesses must meet before a court can connect the dots between exposure and illness, a ruling that could have an impact on insurance claims and toxic tort litigation.
In the case of two workers who claimed they developed sinus problems from cleaning up after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in 2010, the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a lower federal court. The district court in Pensacola, Florida, had excluded the testimony of two plaintiffs’ expert witnesses and granted a judgment in favor of BP, the Br