Asbestos Expert Says He Wasn't Fired; Delisting Was at His Request

<font color=#8A9656icAendicn expert removed from a Texas firm's pending beryllium and asbestos cases is now saying that transcripts indicating that he had been fired from those cases, just as a district court was striking his testimony for violating a gag order in a Colorado beryllium case, are not accurate. photo-9

Dr. David Egilman, a frequently-called witness in asbestos litigation, was the subject of a June 18 hearing at which the presiding judge reprimanded Egilman for violating the order when he allegedly posted defamatory statements about the judge and a beryllium defendant on his Web site.

The same judge had threatened …