Opinion ID: 3214099
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: The Testimony of Dr. Marc Seifer

Text: Marc Seifer, Ph.D. was defendants’ handwriting expert. He testified at trial concerning the WSI waiver.6 After discussing in detail his process of analyzing a signature, Dr. Seifer 6 Doctor Seifer was restricted by the trial justice to testifying with respect to only Mr. Voccola’s signature on the WSI waiver; thus, he did not testify about the signatures on the CVR and CCI waivers. His testimony was so restricted because defendants had failed to update their answers to interrogatories to indicate that Dr. Seifer would be testifying about the CVR and CCI waivers and not simply about the WSI waiver. We are aware that it was conceded that plaintiffs -8- concluded that in his expert opinion Mr. Voccola signed the WSI waiver. During the course of his testimony, he was critical of Ms. Patchis’s report. Additionally, on cross-examination, Dr. Seifer responded in the affirmative when he was asked: “[A]t the time you were studying [Ms. Patchis’s] conclusion, you had already formed the opinion that she was wrong and the signature was actually Mr. Voccola’s?”