Earlier this year, the Florida Supreme Court reinstated the Daubert standard for evaluating and admitting expert testimony, after having abandoned it in favor of the Frye standard. Trial courts will ...

Seven months ago, the Florida Supreme Court declined to adopt Daubert as the standard for admitting expert testimony in Florida state courts. In DeLisle v. Crane Co., 258 So. 3d 1219 (2018), the court ...

Prior to 1993, federal and state courts used the standard enunciated in Frye v. United States, 293 F. 1013 (D.C. Cir. 1923), to determine whether scientific evidence should be admitted at a trial. The ...

The Florida Supreme Court rejected a 2013 law intended to bring the state's expert witness standard in line with most others as an overreach into court territory. In a 4-3 decision, the court ...

David Haber, with Haber Slade. In construction cases in particular, insurance carriers providing a defense to developers, contractors, architects, engineers and manufacturers often waited until the ...

As part of a package of tort reform proposals, Florida Gov. Rick Scott promised during his campaign to change the standard in which courts consider expert scientific testimony. Scott argued during the ...

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Gov. Rick Scott achieved part of his goal of tort reform by getting the Legislature to approve a change in how scientific evidence is admitted in court. In April, the House passed HB 7015 75-42 and ...

It sounds like a technical issue that only lawyers would care about, but all Floridians — because any of us could wind up in court someday — have a stake in a dispute over what standard to apply to ...