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By Leon Robertson

So much advocates of “tort reform” search to cap jury awards for harm via detrimental items and clinical malpractice. They decry “junk science”, implying that plaintiffs’ situations are in keeping with invalid study or reviews of unqualified witnesses. in line with his adventure as knowledgeable witness, the writer exposes the lies, plagiarism and biases of witnesses employed by way of huge firms to guard them in product legal responsibility proceedings. real transcripts from depositions and trials are quoted to bare the massive quantities of cash paid to those witnesses and their willingness to assert what the legal professionals inform them to assert. The publication concludes with an exam of other proposals to tort reform that will placed extra money within the wallet of the injured and no more within the wallet of overpaid attorneys and witnesses.

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Then what do we have? A. This is a book of some of Dr. McCarthy's cv and background materials on this comparative risk stuff, some of the specific calculations he does on specific ones, some stuff out of -- since you were interested in credentials, I looked him up in Science Citation Index to see if anybody pays any attention to what he writes, he's not referenced in 1992 or 1993 to any article he's written. L. McCarthy in there, but he's apparently a chemist or physicist, and none of the publications listed there are publications in McCarthy's CV.

Q. Was the jury shown this improper evidence? A. They were. Q. Did that concern you as the presiding judicial officer? A. It was -- it was -- I characterized it as everything from negligence to gross negligence to an intentional act. And it's difficult to reach inside of somebody's mind and to figure out what it was. But it was an exhibit that was as tall as a person and the lettering on it was -- I don't know -- two-or three- inches high. And it said, "Elizabeth Livingston, driving unbelted," which was a clear violation of the -- of the motion in limne.

I'll go with you if you'll go first. He had the good grace to laugh with everyone else in the courtroom. In a rollover case, I encountered Mr. Brooke again. He questioned me about what I knew about the lawyers that provided the funds for my first rollover study. He didn't seem to believe that I did not know anything about their practices. I said that I knew lawyers that did both plaintiff's and defense work, so I didn't classify lawyers as exclusively plaintiffs or defense lawyers as he was doing.

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