Opinion

Robertson v. Doug Ashy Building Materials, Inc.

  • 2010 La.App. 1 Cir. 1552
  • 77 So. 3d 339
  • 2011 La. App. LEXIS 1174
  • 2011 WL 4572067
Court
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Filed
Oct 4, 2011
Status
Published
Author
McClendon
On the bench
McClendon, Pettigrew, Welch
Cited by
29 cases

noting an absence of evidence that the medical expert’s opinions on medical causation were unreliable

How later courts described this case

  • noting an absence of evidence that the medical expert’s opinions on medical causation were unreliable
  • “[W]e cannot find, nor have we been directed to, any authority for the trial court's determination that a plaintiff must prove or that an expert must know the ‘dose’ of asbestos as to each particular defendant in order to establish causation.”
  • trial court erred in striking affidavit of medical expert whose statements were based on his knowledge, experience, and training, and his review of patient’s medical records, expert reports, medical studies and literature, and depositions of the patient and his family

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

McCLENDON, J.,

concurs and assigns reasons.

hi concur in the result reached by the majority.

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