New Jersey Expert Admissibility Standard: “Reconciled” with Daubert

New Jersey Expert Admissibility Standard: “Reconciled” with Daubert

August 2, 2018, Covington Alert

On August 1, 2018, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision affirming a trial court’s exclusion of scientifically unfounded expert causation testimony in the Accutane litigation. The decision, which ends over 2,100 lawsuits against Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. and Roche Laboratories Inc. (“Roche”), represents the Supreme Court’s first statement on New Jersey expert standards in over a decade, and it provides substantial clarity on those standards.