McLeish v. Beachy

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

Appellants, a mother and child, filed suit in May 1996 alleging injury sustained by the child (hereafter “Tahishia”) in an accident that occurred while she was a passenger in a school bus driven by appellee. Before trial, appellee moved the court to strike the de bene esse deposition of appellants’ sole medical expert and grant summary judgment on the ground that the expert failed as a matter of law to establish proximate causation between the accident and Tahishia’s alleged injuries, which consisted of ongoing headaches. The trial judge granted the motion essentially…