N.Y. Judge Bars Testimony From Experts Linking Gasoline Leak to Birth Defects

NEW YORK — A New York trial court judge has barred testimony by two medical experts who linked a fuel line link in an automobile to birth defects later found in the pregnant driver’s child, saying the experts’ methodologies failed to meet the generally accepted admissibility standard required by Frye v. United States (293 F. 1013 [1923]).

New York County Supreme Court Justice Louis B. York also faulted experts Linda Frazier, M.D., MPH and Shira Kramer, Ph.D., for failing to demonstrate how their opinions met the widely adopted Bradford Hill criteria for causation in developmental toxicology.

Frazier and Kramer were …