Asbestos Plaintiffs Warn Of Expert Oversight Motion’s ‘Massive Chilling Effect’

( June 5, 2024, 2:32 PM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — Allowing Johnson & Johnson to compel plaintiff-side expert William Longo to perform testing under the gaze of defense experts would be a “patently unreasonable” and unprecedented step and likely have a “massive chilling effect on expert witnesses,” plaintiffs in the federal multidistrict asbestos-talc litigation argue in opposing a motion to compel....