Ricard v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

The defendant argues in support of its motions that the plaintiff’s doctors were not qualified by either study or experience to give expert opinions on the medical question involved. It has long been the law of this state that the qualifications of a witness to give expert opinion presents a preliminary question of fact to be determined at the trial by the presiding justice, and will not, in the absence of abuse of discretion, be reviewed in this court unless that question of discretion “is specially reserved by him for revision.” Jones v. Tucker, 41 N. H. 546; Taylor v. Railway, 48 N. H.…