Smith v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

MEMORANDUM ORDER

FEINBERG, United States Magistrate Judge.

Defendants State Farm Fire and Casualty Company and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (“Defendants” or “State Farm”) have filed a Motion to Compel which presents important questions concerning Federal Civil Rule 26(a)(2)(B)’s requirements for disclosure of expert testimony. The parties have provided helpful memoran-da, setting forth their positions on the extent of disclosures required. The questions presented are these:

1. May expert witnesses adopt, as part of their respective reports, answers to interrogatories which…