Soil Sample Destruction Earns Expert Exclusion From Asbestos Suit

( February 25, 2026, 2:12 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A shipyard should have known that it had a duty to preserve soil samples tested by an expert who had yet to be deposed in an asbestos case rapidly approaching trial, a federal judge in Louisiana said in excluding the expert and any expert opinions relying on her soil testing....