Goodloe v. Sharpe

By Judge John J. McGrath, Jr.

This matter is before the Court on Plaintiffs Motion in Limine to preclude testimony from a treating orthopedic surgeon relating to causation of Plaintiffs injury and diagnoses which had not been made to a reasonable degree of medical certainty.

This issue arises because Defendant has designated Plaintiffs treating orthopedic surgeon as an expert witness for the Defendant. The Defendant has taken a de bene esse deposition of the orthopedic surgeon and has interrogated him at length concerning, inter alia, four passages in his medical records. These passages read as…