Pluck v. BP Oil Pipeline Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• addressing on appeal the trial court’s exclusion of the plaintiff’s proposed specific-causation opinion as unreliable
• requiring expert to “reliably rule out the rejected causes” of an injury
• rejecting medical causation testimony where expert failed to “rule out” alternative causes
• rejecting medical-causation testimony where expert failed to “rule out” alternative causes
• trial court properly excluded expert where differential diagnosis failed to rule out smoking as a cause of plaintiff’s cancer
• “Both causation inquiries involve scientific assessments that must be established through the testimony of a medical expert.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).