Expert Witnesses In The News
Kentucky AG Asks Medical Expert To Review Accident
Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway's staff is asking a medical expert to review the case of a Lexington nursing home resident who was found severely injured last year in a room that stored equipment. The move came after Scott Owens, an attorney who represents Irene Hendrix, 89, asked Conway's office to reopen the investigation of her unexplained injuries at Lexington's Cambridge Place Nursing Home.
Mining Expert On Chilean Mine Rescue
An enormous drill began preliminary work Monday at the San Jose Mine in Chile to carve a half-mile chimney through solid rock to free the 33 men trapped in a Chilean mine, their ordeal now having equaled the longest known survival in an underground disaster. The 31-ton drill bored 50 feet into the rock, the first step in the weeklong digging of a "pilot hole" to guide the way for the rescue. Later the drill will be outfitted with larger bits to expand the hole and pull the men through — a process that could take four months.
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Environmental Experts Agree On Landfill Cleanup
The scope of the multi-million dollar Dickson County, TN, landfill lawsuit just broadened with four expert testimonies that conclude the spread of contaminants could be much wider than previously estimated. The lawsuit, filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council on behalf of members of the Holt family is set to go to trial in March. Expert witnesses have been hired by the plaintiffs to back up claims that the chemicals dumped in the landfill over decades have contaminated groundwater in a larger region than previously believed.
Medical Experts Testify In Case of Doctor Facing 350 MedMal Claims
Multiple medical malpractice experts testified Tuesday in a case against a former Merrillville, IN, nose doctor who allegedly fled the country on the heels of hundreds of lawsuits. Mark Weinberger is facing 350 medical malpractice claims, as well as $5.7 million in creditor claims and 22 criminal counts of billing fraud, state and federal court records show.
Daubert Challenges A Decade After Kumho Tire
In Special Legal Report: Daubert Challenges Ten Years After Kumho Tire, Sherrye Henry, Jr, Esq., BVWire Legal Editor writes: It’s been ten years since the U.S. Supreme Court expanded its ruling in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to all types of technical expert testimony—including financial experts and business appraisers—in Kumho Tire v. Carmichael. PriceWaterhouseCoopers has just released its new Daubert Challenges to Financial Experts: A Ten-year Study of Trends and Outcomes, 2000 to 2009. After examining over 5,200 Daubert challenges to expert witnesses of all types, in federal and state courts, the PwC study concludes:
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Insurance Expert On Flood Insurance
Mark Lujan, the regional manager of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Flood Insurance Program, tried to counter some of the myths about flood insurance at a recent public forum in Oklahoma City. "Even if you are in a low-risk flood zone you can get flood insurance,” Lujan said. "You can get it, and it is very inexpensive.” Most of those affected by last month's floods in Oklahoma City qualified for inexpensive insurance but didn't know it, the expert said.
Construction Expert On WA Supreme Court Case
The eastern Skamania County, WA, home of Ford and Christina Huntington has been the subject of a legal dispute since 2005. The Skamania County residents learned house was on neighbor’s property 8 years after it was built. Their neighbor, Noel Proctor, sued the Huntingtons to get them off his property (and to take their house with them.)