Nicholas v. Mynster

In this medical-malpractice case, we must determine whether, under the New Jersey Medical Care Access and Responsibility and Patients First Act (Patients First Act or Act), L. 2004, c. 17, codified in part at N.J.S.A. 2A:53A-41, plaintiffs’ medical expert possesses the statutory credentials necessary to testify against defendant physicians. In both Ryan v. Renny, 203 N.J. 37, 999 A.2d 427 (2010), and Buck v. Henry, 207 N.J. 377, 25 A.3d 240 (2011), we held that, generally, a plaintiff’s medical expert testifying to the standard of care allegedly breached by a defendant physician must be…