Admissibility Does Not Depend on Personal Knowledge of Facts

Business Valuation UpdateVol. 21 No. 6
Legal and Court Case Update
June 2015
4212 Local Trucking Without Storage
562111 Solid Waste Collection
economic damages & lost profits
lost profits, breach of contract, expert testimony, admissibility, discovery, waste, reliability, accounts receivable, reasonable certainty, lost revenue

Am. Eagle Waste Indust., LLC v. St. Louis County
2015 Mo. App. LEXIS 168
February 24, 2015
US
State Court
Missouri
Court of Appeals
C. Eric Ficken (haulers/plaintiffs); none (county/defendant)
Clayton III

Summary

Appeals court says expert’s lack of personal knowledge of information undergirding lost profits calculation does not disqualify his opinion, as long as he can show experts in his field would rely on this information and it is otherwise reasonably reliable ...

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Am. Eagle Waste Indust., LLC v. St. Louis County

Appeals court says expert’s lack of personal knowledge of information undergirding lost profits calculation does not disqualify his opinion, as long as he can show experts in his field would rely on this information and it is otherwise reasonably reliable ...