United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit No. 21-2107 STEVE STEVENSON, Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER CORP., Defendant-Appellee.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 1:19-cv-00052 — John Robert Blakey, Judge.

ARGUED FEBRUARY 17, 2022 — DECIDED JULY 7, 2022

Before ROVNER, HAMILTON, and ST. EVE, Circuit Judges. ROVNER, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff Steve Stevenson appeals the district court’s decision in this product-liability action not to appoint a neutral expert pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 706. Finding no abuse of discretion in the court’s decision, we affirm. 2 No. 21-2107

I. Stevenson was injured in the course of his employment with a commercial printing company. He was moving a portable ladder in order to clean a component of a Primaflex printing press, manufactured by defendant W