North Carolina Rejects Daubert Federal Expert Testimony Standard

Business Valuation UpdateVol. 10 No. 9
Legal and Court Case Update
September 2004
3842 Orthopedic, Prosthetic, and Surgical Appliances and Supplies
339113 Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing
expert testimony

Howerton v. Arai Helmet
2004 N.C. LEXIS 667
June 25, 2004
US
State Court
North Carolina
Supreme Court
Professor Hugh H. Hurt, Jr. (for plaintiff)<br>William C. Hutton, D.Sc. (for plaintiff)<br>James Randolph Hooper (for plaintiff)<br>Charles Edward Rawlings, III, M.D. (for plaintiff)
Wainwright

Summary

In this products liability case, the issue was whether North Carolina had adopted the federal Daubert standard of expert testimony admissibility.

See Also

Howerton v. Arai Helmet

The issue in this case was the testimony of an expert witness.