Plaintiff Says Motion to Limit Expert Arises from Defense Testing Lapses

CLEVELAND - The plaintiff in a scheduled welding trial says in a brief opposing a motion to limit his expert neuroradiologist's testimony on MRI analysis that the challenge comes not because of unproven science, as defendants claim, but because a defense expert failed to conduct the same analysis. Jerkins, et al. v. Airgas-Gulf States Inc., et al., No. 1:04-cv-18810 [In re: Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1535] (N.D. Ohio).

Counsel for Charles E. Jerkins Jr. filed the brief on July 5, responding to the defense motion to bar Dr. Sukhwinder Sandhu from referencing "Pallidal indexing," a computer-based …