Parker v. Knight

Marshall, Justice.

Where the defendant in a medical malpractice suit files a motion for summary judgment, introducing his own affidavit as an expert witness in support thereof, and the plaintiff fails to oppose the defendant’s motion for summary judgment by introducing her own expert evidence, should the defendant’s motion for summary judgment be granted? In this case, the Court of Appeals held that under these circumstances the defendant-physician’s motion for summary judgment should not be granted, because his testimony as an expert is insufficient to pierce the allegations of the plaintiffs…