Oswald v. LeGrand

NEUMAN, Justice.

This appeal challenges a grant of summary judgment for medical professionals in a case involving the spontaneous abortion of a 19-22 week-old fetus. The trial court barred the plaintiffs from introducing expert testimony due to their failure to timely designate an expert in accordance with Iowa Code section 668.11(2) (1987). Accordingly, the district court determined that plaintiffs could not generate a material issue of fact concerning the defendants’ negligence. Because we conclude that expert testimony is crucial to some but not all of plaintiffs’ claims, we affirm in part,…