Legal Opinion
Boudreaux v. Bollinger Shipyard
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 22, 2016No. Nos. 2015-CA-1345, 2015-C-0958PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.
11 Gerald Boudreaux died of lung cancer. His survivors sued several entities and their insurers claiming that Mr. Bou-dreaux’s exposure to asbestos at worksites caused or significantly contributed to his disease. Dr. Gerald E. Liuzza, a pathologist, was proposed by the plaintiffs as an expert witness to establish the causative link between the asbestos exposure and the disease.
Trinity Industries, Inc., one of the defendants, provoked a Daubert-Foret hearing to challenge, specifically, the methodology employed by Dr. Liuzza in arriving at his opinion; Its insurers,…
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