Travelers Property & Casualty Corp. v. General Electric Co

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• recognizing that the NFPA 921 is “a peer reviewed and generally accepted standard in the fire investigation community”
• noting that NFPA 921 is \a peer reviewed and generally accepted standard in the fire investigation community.\
• “No single factor is necessarily dispositive of the reliability of a particular expert’s testimony and ‘[a] review of the ease law after Daubert shows that the rejection of expert testimony is the exception rather than the rule.’ ”
• “[A]lthough [the expert] did not test his theory experimentally, his theory is capable of being tested, so that [opposing party] experts could employ testing to undercut it and, indeed, have engaged in such efforts.”
• “[T]he court is convinced that the steps [the expert witness] took to develop his opinion were nevertheless consistent with the principles of NFPA 921, a peer reviewed and generally accepted standard in the fire investigation community.”
• finding the NFPA 921 standards sufficiently reliable under Daubert

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).