Court Finds Expert's Meta-Analysis Untimely, But Will Allow Some Opinions

CLEVELAND - U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. O'Malley agreed with a welding fume plaintiff that a defense epidemiologist's meta-analysis prepared in response to another expert's deposition testimony is untimely, but she said she would allow some opinions from the report as rebuttal. Street v. Lincoln Electric Co., et al., No. 1:06-cv-17026 [n re: Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1535] (N.D. Ohio).

The judge entered her order granting in part plaintiff Richard Street's motion to strike certain opinions offered by defense epidemiologist James Mortimer on Sept. 26, and denied a related motion to bar related testimony as moot.

Mortimer …