Legal Opinion
Estate of Ford v. Eicher
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided March 21, 2011No. 09SC229PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Rice
We granted certiorari in this case to review the court of appeals' decision that overturned the trial court's exclusion of two medical experts' testimony. 1 The court of appeals held that the trial court abused its discretion when it applied an incorrect legal standard-the reasonable medical probability standard-as a preliminary matter in its reliability analysis to determine the admissibility of the medical expert causation testimony of Dr. Theodore A. Cooper and Dr. Joseph G. Ouz-ounian. Estate of Ford v. Eicher, 220 P.8d 939, 947-48 (Colo.App.2008). It also found that the trial court…
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