Judge Orders Frye Hearing on Expert Testimony for Bianca Jagger

NEW YORK - A New York Supreme Court justice has ordered an admissibility hearing before ruling on challenges to two mold experts retained by Bianca Jagger in her personal injury lawsuit against her former landlord. Jagger v. Katz Park Avenue Corp., No. 060297/2003 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., N.Y. Cty.).

New York County Supreme Court Justice Leland DeGrasse said in an order dated Jan. 11 and filed on Jan. 31 that a Frye hearing is warranted on proposed testimony by Ritchie C. Shoemaker, M.D., of Pocomoke, Md., and Damien Downing, MMS, LicAc, of London, England, president of the British Society for Ecological …