New Jersey Accutane Plaintiffs in Peril After Experts Barred for Poor Science

Thousands of plaintiffs in multicounty litigation in New Jersey who contend Accutane causes gastrointestinal injury were dealt a severe blow when their causation experts were excluded by the presiding trial court because their reasoning and methodology were “slanted away from scientific evidence and in the direction of advocacy” (In re Accutane Litig., N.J. Super. Ct., 271 (MCL), 2/20/15).

After eight days of admissibility hearings, Judge Nelson C. Johnson of the New Jersey Superior Court, Atlantic County, ruled Feb. 20 that the plaintiffs’ experts—gastroenterologist Dr. Arthur A. Kornbluth and statistical expert David Madigan—were “motivated by preconceived conclusions,” and ...