Sentences with phrase «doctors as expert witnesses»

Both she and the defendants called different doctors as expert witnesses.

To survive the defendant's motion, the plaintiff argued that she would be calling her doctor as an expert witness to testify that the second accident caused or substantially aggravated her injuries.

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In his claim, he said that despite the U of C finding: Continue reading Doctor with 9 retractions loses lawsuit over work as expert witness

Doctor Mapes has years of experience in veterinary medicine and is available to serve as an expert witness or second opinion in legal cases against other veterinarian practices.

You don't have to be a trained doctor or research academic to come to that conclusion, but clearly the knowledge attained from years of study and subsequent clinical practice does put a formerly registered practising medical practitioner in a position where her expertise can be utilised, as an expert witness in this field, without her currently «practising» medicine.

I remember a story years ago of a famous case (one of the Hiss trials perhaps) where a distinguished doctor testified as an expert witness and the other attorney on cross established that he didn't know what he was talking about.

The report details significant contributions to mesothelioma research made by some such attorneys, as well as some asbestos lawyers sending «elaborate gift baskets» to doctors, providing tickets to «professional sporting events,» or offering «paid work as expert witnesses.»

In addition to the medical expert retained by the defense, the plaintiff also hired a doctor to serve as an expert witness and offer an opinion on the source of the plaintiff's injuries.

For example, in a personal injury case, an expert witness such as the plaintiff's doctor may explain the severity of the plaintiff's injuries.

In car accident cases, the most common examples of expert witnesses are health care providers (such as doctors), medical specialists, accident reconstructionists, and economists.

When you call upon medical doctors and family practice physicians to testify as expert witnesses, he or she will review the facts of the case in order to understand all the issues and objectively clarify any relevant medical questions.

Expert witnesses such as doctors and accident reconstruction experts may also present testimony about the car accident or your injuries in court.

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Massachusetts medical malpractice lawyers need to examine their own practices and see whether they've become too complacent in the tactics they use to try cases and whether they've become too ensnared in conflicts of interests with the doctors they use as expert witnesses.

(1) extending negligent misrepresentation beyond «business transactions» to product liability, unprecedented in Texas; (2) ignoring multiple US Supreme Court decisions that express and implied preemption operate independently (as discussed here) to dismiss implied preemption with nothing more than a cite to the Medtronic v. Lohr express preemption decision; (3) inventing some sort of state - law tort to second - guess the defendant following one FDA marketing approach (§ 510k clearance) over another (pre-market approval), unprecedented anywhere; (4) holding that the learned intermediary rule does not apply whenever a defendant «compensates» or «incentivizes» physicians to use its products, absent any Texas state or appellate authority; (5) imposing strict liability on an entity not in the product's chain of sale, contrary to Texas statute (§ 82.001 (2)-RRB-; (6) creating a claim for «tortious interference» with the physician - patient relationship, again utterly unprecedented; (7) creating «vicarious» breach of fiduciary duty for engaging doctors to serve as expert witnesses in mass tort litigation also involving their patients, ditto; and (8) construing a consulting agreement with a physician as «commercial bribery» to avoid the Texas cap on punitive damages, jaw - droppingly unprecedented.