ALFA International 2024 Product Liability & Complex Torts Practice Group Seminar – September 25-27, 2024 in Stowe, Vermont
Partner Annette Mijanovic is speaking during this seminar on a panel that will be discussing hot topics that impact an organization’s business operations and litigation strategies.
Program Description
The Standards for Admission of Expert Testimony Under Federal Rule of Evidence 702 Were Meaningfully Amended December 1, 2023
Following more than two decades of various forms of misapplication of the “Daubert trilogy” of United States Supreme Court cases articulating the standards for admitting scientific and other forms of expert testimony, the December 1, 2023 amendments to Rule 702 have the effect of: (1) raising the admissibility bar by strengthening trial courts’ initial gatekeeping role, (2) requiring a tighter connection between experts’ opinions and the methods they use, and (3) continued monitoring of experts’ in-court testimony to be able to strike, when necessary, expert testimony that as actually presented no longer meets admissibility standards.