Tuesday, October 07, 2003

The Science of Mold

The Insurance Defense Blog has this post on a collection of information about indoor mold hazards compiled as a class project at the University of Minnesota. Your humble investigator has encountered little Daubert jurisprudence on this subject at the federal appellate level. But surely it's coming.

posted by pn at 6:29 AM  

Fed. R. Evid. 702: If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise, if (1) the testimony is based upon sufficient facts or data, (2) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) the witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.