Judge Admits Experts Over ‘Every Exposure’ Asbestos Causation Concerns

Mealey's ( April 4, 2023, 3:04 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Expert opinions that mesothelioma is a dose-response disease and that each exposure contributes to the total dose of exposure do not constitute inadmissible testimony that every exposure leads to disease, and general causation testimony, while perhaps well known to the parties, will assist a layperson jury, a federal judge in California said in admitting the opinions....