Martin v. Dyas
Supreme Court of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
Linda Martin, the plaintiff in a medical-malpractice action against Edmund C. Dyas IV, M.D., J. Michael Cockrell, M.D., and The Orthopaedic Group, P.C., appeals from a judgment as a matter of law entered for the defendants, arguing that the trial court erred in excluding the testimony of her expert witness. We reverse and remand.
I
The appellant, Linda Martin, has a long history of back and neck problems. The problems began in 1971, and she underwent her first spinal surgery in 1972. Before she underwent the surgery in March 1998 out of which her medical-malpractice case arises, Martin had…
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