In a pair of toxic tort cases arising from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Eleventh Circuit held that general causation expert evidence must establish a minimum level of exposure at which crude oil, its dispersants, or their associated chemicals are hazardous to human beings. In re Deepwater Horizon BELO Cases, 2024 WL 4522690 (11th…
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Toxicology Expert’s Opinions Properly Excluded for Failure to Consider Dose-Response Relationship or Potential Alternative Causes of Plaintiff’s Disease
In Williams v. Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC, 2018 WL 2191426 (11th Cir. May 14, 2018), the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the District Court’s exclusion of proffered expert testimony by a toxicologist, and of the plaintiff’s proposed lay testimony that her home had “no present value” because of emissions from a nearby fertilizer plant, and affirmed the resulting…