ROSS v. HOUSING AUTH. OF BALTO. CITY

No. 10, September Term, 2012.

63 A.3d 1 (2013)

430 Md. 648

Cherie ROSS v. HOUSING AUTHORITY OF BALTIMORE CITY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 22, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Beveridge, Jr. and Scott E. Nevin , (Law Offices of Peter T. Nicholl, Baltimore, MD; John Amato, IV of Goodman, Meagher & Enoch, LLP, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for Petitioner.

Paul J. Weber , (Hyatt & Weber, P.A., Annapolis, MD), on brief, for Respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, BARBERA, McDONALD, JJ.


McDONALD, J.

Unlike the bullet or the misplaced banana peel, the effect of toxic substances on the body is often subtle and slow, leaving cause uncertain. This gap of understanding is often bridged through science, probability, and inference from provable facts. As a result, expert testimony has become central to toxic tort litigation.1 But not every inference is provable in court by expert opinion testimony. Nor need it be.

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