Maryland trial judges will now be expected to evaluate expert opinion pre-trial, and out of the hearing of the jury. The pre-trial hearing, moreover, should not be limited to the question of whether ...

In his Matrimonial Practice column, Timothy M. Tippins, an adjunct professor at Albany Law School, writes: Eighteen years after the U.S. Supreme Court enunciated a heightened standard of scrutiny to ...

But the need for special master Joseph Lisa to re-do his report under the revised standard means the Supreme Court is unlikely to come up with a ruling in "Olenowski" until the fall, said defense ...

Gov. Rick Scott achieved part of his goal of tort reform by getting the Legislature to approve a change in how scientific evidence is admitted in court. In April, the House passed HB 7015 75-42 and ...

David Haber, with Haber Slade. In construction cases in particular, insurance carriers providing a defense to developers, contractors, architects, engineers and manufacturers often waited until the ...

As part of a package of tort reform proposals, Florida Gov. Rick Scott promised during his campaign to change the standard in which courts consider expert scientific testimony. Scott argued during the ...

With the possible exception of arborists, litigation experts don’t grow on trees. Even if they did, to testify as an expert in a particular area, they must be qualified before the court. Before we get ...

The Maryland Court of Appeals has retired the inflexible Frye-Reed standard and adopted the framework of Daubert for evaluating the admissibility of expert testimony. In Rochkind v. Stevenson (August ...

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