Legal Opinion
Elias v. Suran
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided July 22, 1993No. 91-P-1045PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPorada, J.
The only issue presented on appeal from a Superior Court judgment for the defendant in a medical malpractice action is whether the trial judge erred by admitting in evidence, over the plaintiff’s objection, the testimony of a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) about the routine practice in 1981 at MGH for administering morphine sulfate to patients undergoing angiograms. The plaintiff argues that this testimony was inadmissible on two grounds: (1) the lack of notice of the subject matter of the witness’s expert testimony prior to the deadline for supplementing answers to…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Brune v. BelinkoffMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1968
- Davidson v. Massachusetts Casualty InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
- Commonwealth v. TorrealbaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
- Commonwealth v. CarrollMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1971
- Curtin v. BenjaminMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
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3Cited by14 opinions
- O'Connor v. SmithKline Bio-Science Laboratories, Inc.Massachusetts Appeals Court · 1994
- Commonwealth v. GiontzisMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1999
- Kace v. LiangMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2015
- Hammell v. Shooshanian Engineering Associates, Inc.Massachusetts Appeals Court · 2009
- Perrault v. EspinalMassachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · 2000
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