{"id":2200,"date":"2013-10-15T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:52:29","slug":"u-s-court-appeals-reverses-admissibility-expert-testimony-benzene-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-reverses-admissibility-expert-testimony-benzene-case\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses on Admissibility of Expert Testimony in Benzene Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7<sup>th<\/sup> Circuit in Chicago reversed a district court decision granting summary judgment where the court found that the expert testimony for the plaintiff was unreliable.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Donald Schultz was a painter for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Motors\">American Motors Corp. <\/a>from 1981 until 1989.<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benzene\">Benzene <\/a>was a substance in the paint that was used.Mr. Schultz died in 2006 from an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/cancertopics\/pdq\/treatment\/adultaml\/patient\">acute myeloid leukemia <\/a>(AML) related to benzene exposure.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The wife of Mr. Schultz, Joann, filed a lawsuit against Akzo Nobel Paints (formerly known as the Glidden Co.), asserting that the benzene in the paint caused Mr. Schultz\u2019s AML and subsequently his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Akzo moved for summary judgment using the expert testimony of its expert toxicologist, David Pyatt.\u00a0Pyatt\u2019s opinion was that the benzene exposure did not cause Mr. Schultz\u2019s AML because only workers exposed to more than 40 parts per million (ppm) years of benzene developed AML.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-reverses-admissibility-expert-testimony-benzene-case\/#more-2200\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago reversed a district court decision granting summary judgment where the court found that the expert testimony for the plaintiff was unreliable.\u00a0Donald Schultz was a painter for American Motors Corp. from 1981 until 1989.\u00a0Benzene was a substance in the paint that was used.Mr. Schultz died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84,38,75,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemical-exposure-injuries","category-federal-law","category-product-defect-litigation","category-work-injuries","category-wrongful-death"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses on Admissibility of Expert Testimony in Benzene Case &#8212; 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