Attorneys Jackson & Jewart Obtain Summary Judgment on Behalf of Class I Railroad Carrier

Attorneys Jeffrey Jackson and Brandon Jewart obtained a dismissal with prejudice on behalf of a Class I railroad carrier in a Federal Employers’ Liability Act (“FELA”) matter in a Hodgkin’s lymphoma case filed in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Plaintiff brought the action under the FELA alleging that the railroad negligently exposed him to toxic substances throughout his career and that this exposure had caused his cancer.  Summary judgment in favor of the railroad was granted after Burns White successfully argued for the exclusion of Plaintiff’s medical expert based on Daubert and Tennessee’s expert evidentiary rules.