Denise Thomas & Willie Lavon Thomas v. Newton International Enterprises Southern Shipping Management (Chile) Ltd.

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• concluding that a longshoreman with twenty-nine years of experience in various positions within the industry was qualified to testify as an expert about proper safety procedures
• concluding that a longshoreman with twenty-nine years of experience in various positions within the industry was qualified to testify as an expert about proper safety procedures
• holding that uncovered hatch could be unreasonably dangerous although plaintiff \could have stepped to the right and avoided the open hatch instead of stepping to the left and falling through it\
• holding that Federal Rule of 9 Evidence 702 “contemplates a broad conception of expert qualifications” and is “broadly 10 phrased and intended to embrace more than a narrow definition of a qualified expert”
• explaining that expert 19 testimony is itself “sufficient to create a genuine issue of disputed fact sufficient to 20 defeat a summary judgment motion”
• holding a longshoreman with 29 14 years of experience was an expert as to the working conditions of longshore personnel

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