Schultz Ex Rel. Estate of Schultz v. Akzo Nobel Paints, LLC

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• recognizing that such broad opinions give rise to concerns about “an ill-defined floor”
• noting that “a reliable expert should consider alternative causes” but need not “rule out every alternative cause”
• noting that when “the judge [is] in the role of gatekeeper for expert testimony, the key to the gate is not the ultimate correctness of the expert’s conclusions”
• considering state law's \substantial factor\ standard for causation in determining admissibility of expert witness' causation testimony
• considering state law's \substantial factor\ standard for causation in determining admissibility of expert witness' causation testimony
• referring to differential etiology as “a generally accepted means for evaluating the cause of a plaintiff’s injury”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).