Medical Malpractice – Expert Witnesses – Limit

By Deborah Elkins
Published: December 1, 2008

In this failure-to-diagnose Lyme disease case in which plaintiff has hired three experts and defendant has eight, including five experts on the standard of care, a Norfolk Circuit Court says defendants can call a total of five experts. Defendants claim a statutory right to present cumulative expert testimony under Va. Code § 8.01-581.20(C). This subsection was ...

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