Products Liability - Ladder Expert Flunks ‘Daubert’ Test

By Deborah Elkins
Published: June 26, 2009

A civil engineer/engineering professor falls short of the Daubert standard in his tests on the “Little Giant” ladder, and an Alexandria U.S. District Court excludes plaintiff’s expert evidence and grants summary judgment to the manufacturer.
Holmes v. Wing Enterprises Inc. (VLW 009-3-352) (17 pp)


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