Miscellaneous

Required Qualifications for Expert Witnesses in Michigan Business Litigation Cases
In many business litigation cases, winning depends on the testimony of an expert witness who supports a party's theory of the case or damage calculations. When testifying, the expert gives his or her opinion on one or more topics at issue in the case...

Are You Really an "Expert Witness"
Allan Griff wrote an article for the BullsEye Newsletter at IMS Expert Services called "Why Do They Call Us Witnesses?" The opening sentence explains - "The words expert and witness are often joined together, as if the purpose of the expert is to be a witness at a trial...

Georgia Supreme Court Upholds Expert Witness Part of 2005 Tort Reform Law
In Mason v. Home Depot [pdf], the Georgia Supreme Court on Monday upheld the expert witness section (Section 7) of Georgia's 2005 tort reform law. Under this provision, expert witnesses in civil cases are subject to more stringent requirements than...

TEXAS & UTAH SPLIT ON EXPERT TESTIMONY REQUIREMENT IN HEALTH CASES.
Two recent cases in Texas and Utah dealing with the requirement of expert testimony in health cases underscore the principal that ?law is common sense as amended by the legislature...

Former Milberg expert witness pleads guilty to perjury
John B. Torkelsen, a former expert witness in hundreds of shareholder derivative and class action cases for Milberg Weiss, pleaded guilty on Thursday to perjury charges. Torkelsen, who is serving a prison sentence in West Virginia on an unrelated charge,...

Meet the Expert on Expert Witness Marketing
My mother Rosalie, the Expert on Expert Witness Marketing, will be speaking at the NADE Conference on April 23 in Austin, Texas and at the FEWA Workshop in Dallas, Texas on December 5...

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
TEA-21 - Plus Law 105-178

Darvocet
FDA Expert Panel Votes for Ban

Pull Vicodin, Percocet
Expert Panel Advises FDA

Salmonella Found in Tomotoes
57 Reported Cases in New Mexico and Texas

ConAgra Peanut Butter
Hundreds of Salmonella Cases Settled

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...