Recently, after extensive oral arguments, HeplerBroom Partner Josh Schumacher convinced the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin to bar several Plaintiffs’ experts from offering specific causation or industrial hygiene opinions pursuant to Daubert v. Merrel. Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993) and its progeny. The Daubert hearing was conducted by United States District Court Judge Pamela Pepper.
In Ahnert v. CBS Corporation, et al., Plaintiff alleged that toxic exposure to asbestos at numerous locations and to a multitude of products ...