Legal Opinion
Vargas v. Sabri
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 13, 2014PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Laura G. Douglas, J.), entered October 1, 2013, which denied plaintiffs’ motion for a Frye hearing, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in denying plaintiffs’ request for a Frye hearing (Frye v United States, 293 F 1013 [DC Cir 1923]) to determine the admissibility of the anticipated testimony of Dr. McRae, a biomechanical engineer. The fact that Dr. McRae lacked medical training did not render him unqualified to render an opinion as an expert that the force of the subject motor vehicle accident could…
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