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Negligence : Wrongful Death – Medical Negligence – Cumulative Expert Opinion
Stephanie Maniscalco//October 26, 2017
Negligence : Wrongful Death – Medical Negligence – Cumulative Expert Opinion
Stephanie Maniscalco//October 26, 2017
Where four experts testified for a doctor who was a defendant in a wrongful death medical negligence case and all four endorsed the defendant’s theory of causation in their testimony, the repetition of expert opinion was unfairly cumulative and prejudicial, so the judgment for the defendant is reversed and remanded for a new trial.
Judgment is reversed and remanded.
Shallow v. Follwell (MLW No. 71103/Case No. ED103811 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, James M. Dowd, C.J.) Appealed from circuit court, Lincoln County, Mennemeyer, J. (Amy Collignon Gunn, Anne Brockland and Elizabeth Washam for appellant) (Mark A. Gonnerman and William J. Magrath for respondent).
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