Recently, the New Jersey Appellate Division, in Dorrell v. Woodruff Energy, Inc.,[1] vacated a 2018 judgment against Chevron U.S.A., Inc. (“Chevron”) that had found Chevron liable for gasoline contamination. More specifically, the Appellate Division found that plaintiff’s expert was not qualified to determine that the subject property was contaminated with gasoline because his methodology was flawed and wholly unsupported by any scientific resource.
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