Evidence – Expert testimony – Exclusion
Where expert testimony was excluded as a sanction for the plaintiffs’ failure to comply with the disclosure requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2)(B), we hold that the rule did not...
View ArticleExpert owes no duty to party in litigation
A disgruntled plaintiff in a suit involving a denture-cleaning device could not sue his expert for malpractice as the law does not recognize the existence of a fiduciary relationship between a witness...
View ArticleCivil practice – Expert testimony
Where (1) on the day before a five-year-old legal negligence case was scheduled to begin trial, the plaintiff notified the court that he would call a certain expert witness to testify and (2) on the...
View ArticleNegligence – Nursing home – Causation – Expert testimony
Where a plaintiff brought a malpractice action after sustaining two broken bones while a patient at the defendant nursing home, the judge incorrectly concluded that the plaintiff's failure to put...
View ArticleEvidence – Expert testimony – Exclusion
Where expert testimony was excluded as a sanction for the plaintiffs’ failure to comply with the disclosure requirements of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(2)(B), we hold that the rule did not...
View ArticleExpert owes no duty to party in litigation
A disgruntled plaintiff in a suit involving a denture-cleaning device could not sue his expert for malpractice as the law does not recognize the existence of a fiduciary relationship between a witness...
View ArticleCivil practice – Expert testimony
Where (1) on the day before a five-year-old legal negligence case was scheduled to begin trial, the plaintiff notified the court that he would call a certain expert witness to testify and (2) on the...
View ArticleNegligence – Nursing home – Causation – Expert testimony
Where a plaintiff brought a malpractice action after sustaining two broken bones while a patient at the defendant nursing home, the judge incorrectly concluded that the plaintiff's failure to put...
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