Defense Challenges to Medical, Industrial Hygiene Experts Rejected

JOPLIN, Mo. - Two experts who defendants said should be excluded from testifying in a silica case because they provided insufficient reports in support of their opinions have been given the green light by a federal judge. Covey v. American Optical Corp., et al., No. 06-217 (W.D. Mo.).

On Nov. 29, Judge Richard E. Dorr Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri denied a motion to exclude the testimony and strike the reports upon which they are based.

Thomas Beller, M.D., and Frank Parker, CIH, were designated by the plaintiffs to testify regarding issues surrounding …