A forensic engineering expert witness investigates materials, products, structures or components that fail or do not function as intended which may cause personal injury or damage to property. The consequences of failure are dealt with by the law of product liability. The subject is applied most commonly in civil law…
LawGuru.com poses the question “What constitutes an”expert witness”? Attorney Jonathon Moseley answers: This is an interesting question, and this is one of the biggest reasons why “pro se” plaintiffs (without an attorney ) often lose in court. A “fact witness” is someone who simply testifies to what they saw, or…
In The Michigan Law Blog, Michael J. Hamblin writes: Required Qualifications for Expert Witnesses in Michigan Business Litigation Cases In many business litigation cases, winning depends on the testimony of an expert witness who supports a party’s theory of the case or damage calculations. When testifying, the expert gives his…
The licensing expert witness opines in cases regarding the multi-billion dollar intellectual property market. In Licensing Overview, Justia.com describes patent licensing: A patent is a grant of a property right to an inventor for an invention that is new, inventive, and useful or industrially applicable. Patents are issued by the…
The licensing expert witness opines in cases regarding the multi-billion dollar intellectual property market. In Licensing Overview, Justia.com describes trademark licensing: Trademarks are also protected intellectual property, generally in the form of a word, symbol, shape, or any sign, that is affixed to a product to indicate its source and…
The licensing expert witness opines in cases regarding the multi-billion dollar intellectual property market. In Licensing Overview, Justia.com explains: A company or person with intellectual property protected by law who wishes to license that property enters into a licensing agreement with a user, and that agreement becomes a contract, governed…
Forensic psychiatry expert witness Dr. Roy Lubit is board certified in forensic psychiatry, child psychiatry and general psychiatry. He writes this on forensic evaluations: Critiquing adverse forensic evaluations is a special art. It is inadequate to simply produce a competing evaluation, so that there is now one on each side.…
In Assessing the Truth: How Forensic Psychiatrists and Psychologists Evaluate Litigants, Dr. Mark Levy, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and forensic psychiatry expert witness writes: Psychological and Neuropsychological testing provides an objective means of sorting out how much embellishment or minimization of symptoms may exist. From…
From the blog of medical expert witness Dr. Barry E. Gustin, MD, MPH, FAAEP: Locality Rules and Qualifying Medical Experts When it became clear by the 1980’s that hospitals were being built in rural areas, that demographic trends indicated sufficient medical staffing in rural areas, that mass communication and mass…
From the blog of medical expert witness Dr. Barry E. Gustin, MD, MPH, FAAEP: Locality Rules and Qualifying Medical Experts By the 1970’s, jurisdictions began modifying the locality rule. One problem the courts faced had to do with whether a medical specialist practicing in a rural area was in any…