Workers Withdraw Claims after Physician's Testimony Barred

CHICAGO - Two railroad office workers have withdrawn mold injury claims against their employer after a federal magistrate judge ruled that their physician's supporting testimony failed to meet Daubert requirements for admissibility. Denton v. Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corp., No. 02 C 2220 (N.D. Ill.).

Magistrate Judge Geraldine Soat Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois concluded in an Aug. 17 opinion that the diagnostic method of exposure and removal from exposure described by the physician 'would have to be applied with much more precision than has been done here' to be useful. On …