Schaffer v. Donegan

This is an action, novel in character, brought against a physician in his capacity as an expert who agreed to provide assistance to and testimony on behalf of a Plaintiff in a medical malpractice case The claim is made that the expert, by reason of changing his opinion, breached his contract to testify and his duty to provide the other parties to his contract with timely notice of his change of opinion. It is alleged that by reason of these failures the Claimants in the medical malpractice case, now Appellants herein, were damaged.

Appellants' claims were tried before a jury, which returned a…