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SCHULZ v. CELOTEX CORP.

No. 90-1708.

942 F.2d 204 (1991)

Catherine SCHULZ, Executrix of the Estate of Robert Schulz (deceased), Appellant, v. CELOTEX CORPORATION; Keene Corporation; Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp.; Owens Illinois, Inc.; National Gypsum; H.K. Porter Company; Armstrong World Industries, Inc.; Crane Packing; John Crane Houdaillie, Inc.; Flinkote Company; Garlock, Inc.; Porter Hayden Company; Rock Wool Manufacturing Co.; Eagle Picher Industries, Inc.; Manville Corporation Asbestos Disease Compensation Fund.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided August 21, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Murphy (argued), Murphy, Murphy & Murphy, P.C., Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Nathan A. Schachtman and Ann E. Pehrige (argued), McCarter & English, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee Keene Corp.

Jonathan Wheeler (argued) and Diana L. Moro-Bishop, Wheeler & Bishop, P.C., Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee Rock Wool Mfg. Co.

R. Bruce Morrison (argued), Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee Manville Asbestos Disease Compensation Fund.

William A. Jones, Sherr, Joffe & Zuckerman, West Conshohocken, Pa., for appellee Flinkote Co., Inc.

Robert B. Lawler, Wilbraham & Coleman, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellees Armstrong World Ind. and Nat. Gypsum Co.

James P. Hadden, Goldfein & Joseph, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee Garlock, Inc.

Before SLOVITER, Chief Judge, and GREENBERG and WEIS, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

WEIS, Circuit Judge.

The district court struck the testimony of an attending physician because he did not couch his diagnosis on causation in terms of reasonable medical certainty. We determine that under either the federal or state rule of evidence, the testimony in this diversity asbestos case was sufficiently definite to be admissible. Because that evidence supplied the causation link necessary to carry the plaintiff's case to the...

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