N.Y. Court Allows Testimony by Mold Experts Johanning, Fink

NEW YORK - A New York trial judge has held that links between mold and respiratory illness are sufficiently accepted in the scientific community and that two medical experts can testify for plaintiffs without the need for a Frye admissibility hearing. Friedman v. Madison 40 Assocs., et al., No. 29065/01 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., Bronx Cty.).

Bronx County (N.Y.) Supreme Court Justice Howard R. Silver declined to follow the reasoning of another New York Supreme Court which barred similar testimony in 2006 and on reargument in 2007. (Fraser v. 301-52 Townhouse Corp. (2006 Slip Op. 51855, 13 Misc.3d 1217[A][Supreme Court, New …