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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Ray partially grants the longshoreman's motion to exclude testimony from the ship owners' expert in a fraud and negligence action arising after he allegedly contracted Covid-19 on the ship. The expert's opinion that the longshoreman could have contracted Covid-19 from other sources, including from his girlfriend who was working as a waitress, is excluded. The ship owners failed to show how the expert relied on his experience as an epidemiologist and infectious disease doctor to identify other possible sources of the longshoreman's Covid-19 infection and why the expert's experience is a sufficient basis for his conclusion. Although the expert's report is deficient for failing to include references to information from the Center for Disease Control's website and data on Covid-19's incubation time, the deficiencies are harmless.