Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation v. Shippers Stevedoring Company

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a “cause and origin expert” is “qualified under Rule 702 to testify about the cause and origin” of a fire in part because he “is certified as a fire and explosion investigator”
• finding that a “cause and origin expert[’s]” “general expertise” and “experience investigating fires caused by welding or hot work” qualified him to testify “about fire prevention procedures for hot work on different objects or structures”
• “ ‘[T]he construction of unambiguous contract terms is strictly a judicial function; the opinions of percipient or expert witnesses regarding the meaning(s) of contractual provisions are irrelevant and hence inadmissible.’ ”
• “ABR’s argument that Simpkins did not review sufficient facts and data goes to the weight of his opinion, to be brought out in cross- examination and resolved by the jury, not to admissibility’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).