Primm v. Isaac

Opinion of the Court by

Justice GRAVES.

This is the third in a recent continuum of cases concerning the extent to which a party can discover and prove the positional bias of an adverse party’s expert witness. In Tuttle v. Perry, Ky., 82 S.W.3d 920 (2002), this Court held that a CR 35.011 *632examining physician can be questioned on cross-examination as to how much he or she charged for the examination, report and testimony in a specific case because “it is widely believed that [expert witnesses] may be expected to express opinions that favor the party who engaged them and who pays their fees.” Id.…