An expert’s overnight change in his report was a proper cause for nonsuit even though the plaintiff’s lawyer had not completed his case, a Philadelphia judge has ruled in a brain cancer case, according to an opinion released last month.

The plaintiff in Branham v. Rohm and Haas Co. alleges her husband’s brain cancer was caused by exposure to a Rohm and Haas chemical, vinyl chloride, manufactured by an Illinois plant and then allegedly negligently stored at the plant.

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