Cox v. Jones

SCHULTZ, Justice.

The issue in this medical malpractice action is whether plaintiffs had lost the right to introduce expert testimony because of their failure to designate an expert within the time required by Iowa Code section 668.11 (1987). 1 The district court sustained defendants’ motion to strike plaintiffs’ designation of their only expert on the ground that the expert was certified over a year past the statutory deadline. The court then granted defendants’ summary judgment motion on the basis that plaintiffs could not establish liability without expert testimony. We agree with the…