By: Matthew Lite, Esq. Experts often provide the most impactful and influential testimony a jury hears at trial.  Unfortunately, even though many experts possess advanced college degrees and other impressive credentials, and testify with an air of confidence, that doesn’t mean their opinions are grounded in reliable scientific principles and methodologies.  Toxic tort cases routinely come down to a battle of the experts, and if experts can give “junk science” opinions, that makes for unfair advantage at trial, and can unjustly result in multi-million-dollar verdicts. With the stakes so high, it should come as no surprise that parties often seek to suppress the number of experts...