Court Allows Shoemaker's Differential Diagnosis Testimony

TOWSON, Md. - A Maryland trial court has issued an order allowing testimony on differential diagnosis methods by mold expert Ritchie Shoemaker, whose findings on cognitive and musculoskeletal illnesses were challenged on appeal in a workers' compensation case. Chesson v. Baltimore Washington Conference, No. 13-C-03-056903 (Md. Cir. Ct., Howard Cty.).

The 33-page order by Judge Daniel W. Moylan of the Circuit Court for Howard County (Md.) came Nov. 9 in a case remanded from Maryland's highest court for a Frye hearing on the admissibility of testimony offered by Shoemaker in 2006 on mold-related injury claims by workers at a Columbia, …