Legal Opinion
Williams v. Hedican
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided April 23, 1997No. 95-2172PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAVORATO, Justice.
Melissa and Adam Williams brought this medical malpractice action against Robert E. Hedican and Ob-Gyn Specialists, P.C. They alleged that the defendants negligently failed to treat Melissa for chicken pox while she was pregnant and as a result her child was bom blind in one eye. In a pretrial ruling, the district court excluded expert testimony on causation from the plaintiffs’ medical expert. The court concluded the testimony lacked a sufficient foundation under the test suggested in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 113 S.Ct. 2786, 125 L.Ed.2d…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Frye v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1923
- Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1995
- Aubrey Hendrix v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- Jones v. Otis Elevator Co.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
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3Cited by40 opinions
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