J. B. Hunt Transport, Inc. v. General Motors Corporation Fisher & Company, Doing Business as Fisher Dynamics Corporation, Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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• stating that this is the burden of the proponent of the evidence
• finding no specific cause of action for “willful and wanton misconduct” for product liability claim under Missouri common law
• affirming exclusion of testifying expert’s testimony that was “inextricably linked” to excluded expert’s testimony
• “Expert testimony that is speculative is not competent proof and contributes nothing to a legally sufficient evidentiary basis.”
• “ ‘Expert testimony that is speculative is not competent proof and contributes nothing to a legally sufficient evidentiary basis.’”
• “[T]he party seeking admission of the [similar-incident] evidence must demonstrate that the circumstances between the two incidents are substantially similar.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).