{"id":2351,"date":"2013-11-25T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2013-11-25T18:36:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T00:36:15","slug":"u-s-circuit-court-appeals-reverses-district-courts-order-barring-expert-witness-product-defect-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-circuit-court-appeals-reverses-district-courts-order-barring-expert-witness-product-defect-case\/","title":{"rendered":"U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals Reverses District Court\u2019s Order Barring Expert Witness in Product Defect Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A district court judge in Chicago granted the motion of defendant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryobitools.com\/\">Ryobi Technologies Inc.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0to exclude an expert witness as unreliable and irrelevant.<span>\u00a0<\/span>Purportedly, it would have cost Ryobi $50 to $150 to install an automatic braking system on the table saw that sliced off Brandon Stollings\u2019s index finger and portions of several other fingers in a \u201ckickback\u201d incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Under Illinois law, it is required that expert testimony is necessary to prove that a product was unreasonably dangerous.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Stollings wanted to call John Graham as his expert to testify that each saw sold without the safety device burdens society with an average of $753 in accident costs.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The basis of Graham\u2019s opinion was that the automatic braking system would have been 90 percent effective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After this appeal was taken, the U.S. Court of Appeals reversed ruling that the district court judge\u2019s exclusion of Graham\u2019s testimony on reliability grounds was an abuse of discretion because it &#8220;intruded too far into the province of the jury.\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span>Graham\u2019s expert opinion was relevant as to whether the Ryobi saw was unreasonably dangerous.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-circuit-court-appeals-reverses-district-courts-order-barring-expert-witness-product-defect-case\/#more-2351\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A district court judge in Chicago granted the motion of defendant Ryobi Technologies Inc.\u00a0\u00a0to exclude an expert witness as unreliable and irrelevant.\u00a0Purportedly, it would have cost Ryobi $50 to $150 to install an automatic braking system on the table saw that sliced off Brandon Stollings\u2019s index finger and portions of several other fingers in a [&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":[6,30,38,75,76,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction-injuries","category-experts","category-federal-law","category-product-defect-litigation","category-product-liability","category-work-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U. 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