Sentences with phrase «engaged as an expert witness»

Additionally, he is often called on to resolve differences of opinion between contract winemakers and their clients and has been engaged as expert witness in legal cases involving wine quality, value and technical issues, such as closures.

He has also been engaged as an expert witness in construction law.

I also engage as an expert witness in medical - negligence and personal injury cases (the other 10 % of my work).

Not exact matches

Jay has also been engaged by many attorneys as expert witness in numerous professional liability cases and he has been appointed by the courts as Arbitrator, Mediator, Special Fiscal Agent or Receiver in numerous matters.

This broader group of witnesses would include, for example, treating physicians, who form opinions based on their participation in the underlying events (referred to in these reasons as «participant experts») rather than because they were engaged by a party to the litigation to form an opinion.

[6] The Westerhof appeal raises the question of whether rule 53.03 applies only to experts described in rule 4.1.01 and Form 53 — experts «engaged by or on behalf of a party to provide [opinion] evidence in relation to a proceeding» (referred to in these reasons as «litigation experts»)-- or whether it applies more broadly to all witnesses with special expertise who give opinion evidence.

Also, funding for personal injury claims has become more difficult to obtain, which has made solicitors more cautious about engaging a medical expert witness as well as an ergonomist.

The following are some examples where we may disclose your personal information: such disclosure is necessary to collect fees or disbursements; we contract with a third party to provide us with certain services such as archival file storage or insurance; (in such cases, we will use contractual or other means to ensure the third party service provider is bound by obligations regarding privacy which are consistent with this policy); or we engage expert witnesses or other law firms on your behalf.

If you have been involved in a complex auto accident, the attorney may represent you fully or choose to engage an accident reconstruction expert who will serve as an expert witness if necessary.

As an expert witness in neurosurgery, to what extent do you get to engage the full capacity of your expertise?

As an expert witness in eye surgery, to what extent do you get to engage the full capacity of your expertise?

As an expert witness in rhinoplasty and ear surgery, to what extent do you get to engage the full capacity of your expertise?

Under the general principles of common law, if you hire an appraiser, and there is no contractual or statutory waiver of a right to sue, you would have to show that (1) there is the standard of professional conduct applicable to the appraisal profession in preparing the appraisal that requires the use of the best available comparables (probably with an expert witness certified as an appraiser), (2) the appraiser in this case engaged in conduct that breached the standard of professional conduct applicable to appraisers, (3) this breach caused you harm that was reasonable foreseeable at the time the appraisal was prepared, and (4) that you suffered quantifiable damages that were foreseeably caused by this breach of duty.

(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.