U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, September 29, 2021
In this asbestos action, plaintiff James Lancaster claimed that his lung cancer was caused, in part, by exposure to asbestos during the course of his 33-year career as a railroad track foreman. The defendant, BNSF Railway Company, pointed instead to the plaintiff’s extensive history of smoking cigarettes. In addition, BNSF argued that the plaintiff could not establish causation because the expert reports provided by the plaintiff were inadmissible. For these reasons, BNSF filed a …
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