Quintana v. Acosta

OPINION

VIGIL, Judge.

{1} In this medical malpractice case, Defendants moved to exclude the causation opinion of Plaintiffs’ expert witness on the basis that the expert was unqualified to give his opinion regarding the efficacy of prophylactic antibiotics and that the testimony was scientific knowledge, which Plaintiffs were unable to establish as reliable. The district court agreed, excluded the expert’s causation opinion, and therefore dismissed the case. Concluding that the district court erred in ruling that the proposed testimony was scientific knowledge, which requires compliance with…