Baker v. Mathew

This medical malpractice case had been pending over one and one-half years when, pursuant to court order, the plaintiffs provided a list of expert witnesses they intended to use at trial. After providing a list of fifty-six expert witnesses “to be used at trial,” the plaintiffs could not produce the testimony of even one expert witness to oppose the affidavits supporting the doctor’s motion for summary judgment. Every lawyer knows, or should know, that a medical malpractice claim cannot be maintained unless it is supported by expert medical testimony that the defendant doctor deviated from…