Pa. Judge Excludes Plaintiffs' Friction Product Testimony

PHILADELPHIA -- A Pennsylvania trial court judge has issued a ruling excluding plaintiff testimony addressing friction product exposure, saying that the experts relied on the "each and every exposure" doctrine but did not demonstrate methodology for arriving at the conclusion. In re: Asbestos Litigation, October Term 1986, No. 0001 (Pa. Ct. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Cty.).

In the Sept. 24 findings, memorandum and order, Judge Allan L. Tereshko of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia County precluded plaintiff experts from testifying in three of the asbestos cases picked as sample cases to support the parties' respective arguments during a …