{"id":6473,"date":"2017-04-05T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=6473"},"modified":"2017-04-06T23:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T23:28:58","slug":"missouri-law-moves-daubert-expert-witness-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/missouri-law-moves-daubert-expert-witness-standard\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Law Moves to Daubert Expert Witness Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri&#8217;s HB 153 became law recently, supplanting the expert witness screening standard set out in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rulesofevidence.org\">Federal Rules of Evidence<\/a> 702, 703, 704 and 705. Missouri\u2019s new expert witness standard\u00a0 effectively submits expert testimony in most civil and criminal cases to the analysis set forth in <i>Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc<\/i>., 509 U.S. 579 (1993).<\/p>\n<p>Until the law enactment, R.S.Mo. 490.065 has set forth the requirements for admission of expert testimony in Missouri state courts. In its present form, the language of the statute has varied significantly from the familiar expert witness standard set forth in the Federal Rules of Evidence and the rules of numerous sister states that track the federal rules.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri appellate decisions have noted on occasion that <i>Daubert <\/i>and its progeny could provide \u201cguidance\u201d when the federal rules and the Missouri rules match up. <i>See, e.g.<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/sup\/index.nsf\/0\/ca5f825656a9eb5486256d89005fdd6d\/$FILE\/SC85275%20Mo.%20Medical%20Assn%20and%20Mo.%20Assn%20of%20Osteopath%27s%20amici%20brief.pdf\"><i>State Bd. of Registration for the Healing Arts v. McDonagh, <\/i>123 S.W.3d 146, 155-156 (Mo. 2003)<\/a> (Wolff, J, concurring in part and dissenting in part), and <i>Goddard v. State, <\/i>144 S.W.3d 848, 852-853 (Mo. App. S.D. 2004).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/missouri-law-moves-daubert-expert-witness-standard\/#more-6473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri&#8217;s HB 153 became law recently, supplanting the expert witness screening standard set out in the Federal Rules of Evidence 702, 703, 704 and 705. Missouri\u2019s new expert witness standard\u00a0 effectively submits expert testimony in most civil and criminal cases to the analysis set forth in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc., 509 U.S. 579 [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[150,30,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evidence","category-experts","category-federal-law"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Missouri Law Moves to Daubert Expert Witness Standard &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Missouri&#039;s HB 153 became law recently, supplanting the expert witness screening standard set out in the Federal Rules of Evidence 702, 703, 704 and 705.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/missouri-law-moves-daubert-expert-witness-standard\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Missouri Law Moves to Daubert Expert Witness Standard &#8212; 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