Where an expert's subsidiary opinion (attributing part of a hearing loss to a specific period) depends on a foundational premise (that the total hearing loss was noise-induced), a trial judge's rejection of that foundational premise removes the need to consider the subsidiary opinion. The case illustrates the logical dependency between foundational and derivative expert opinions in noise-induced hearing loss claims.
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