What Is the Most Successful Way to Impeach an Expert?
Uncovering weaknesses in any of the three areas can provide ammunition for impeaching expert witnesses on pensions, but the most successful approach is to demonstrate that the method and assumptions employed are atypical within the field or, even stronger, atypical for the expert. When experts are portrayed as hired guns, their word becomes suspect. Few courts go out on a limb by adopting values obtained from untested, unpublished, inexperienced evaluators.
