Superior Court of Delaware

In asbestos litigation involving automotive friction products such as brakes and clutches, defendant's motion in limine to exclude expert testimony that friction products cause asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma is denied following the court's requisite Daubert analysis of each of plaintiffs' proffered causation experts.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/09/2006
• Published 06/20/2006

Judges

Court

• Superior Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ian Connor Bifferato, Bifferato, Gentilotti, Biden & Balick, Wilmington, DE, Thomas C. Crumplar, Jacobs & Crumplar, Wilmington, DE, Christopher J. Panatier, and John J. Spillane, Baron & Budd, P.C., Dallas, TX, William A. Kohlburn, and Michael J. Angelides, Simmons Cooper, LLC, East Alton, IL, Cameron R. Waddell, Leblanc & Waddell, LLP, Baton Rouge, LA, for plaintiffs.


• For Appellees:
  
• Somers S. Price, Jr. and James M. Kron, Potter, Anderson & Corroon, L.L.P., Wilmington, DE, Samuel L. Tarry, Jr., McGuirewoods, L.L.P., Richmond, VA, for Defendant DaimlerChrysler Corporation., Paul A. Bradley, McCarter & English, L.L.P., Wilmington, DE, Steven T. Johnson, Pepple, Johnson, Cantu & Schmidt, P.L.C., Seattle, WA, for Defendant Owens-Illinois, Inc.