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15 Questions an Expert Witness Must be Able to Answer

I have been providing expert witness services in podiatry malpractice cases since 1993. These 15 questions are an example of what I am typically asked during  depositions and testimony:   1. How long have you been doing case reviews? 2.…

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Child Loses Toe in Escalator Accident

A five-year-old child was shopping with her mother in a major department store. While riding the escalator to the third floor, the child’s rubber sandal became entrapped between the moving stairs. The sandal pulled the child’s Hallux (big toe) into…

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Car Without Starter Interlock Device Results in Amputation

This case involves a man who was visiting the home of a friend who had just purchased a new car. The man’s friend asked him if he wanted to see the new car with the engine running. The man’s friend…

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Falling Merchandise in Hardware Store Causes Broken Foot

This case involves a forty-year-old man that visited a “big box” hardware store in order to purchase supplies for building a tree house for his children. The man first visited the lumber section of the store in order to buy…

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Customer Severely Injured in Grocery Store Slip and Fall

This case involves a fifty-five-year-old woman who was grocery shopping for a dinner party.  She entered the grocery store at 10:00 p.m. started in the produce aisle; the first section of the grocery store when entering through the main doors. …

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Automobile’s Defective Electrical Sunroof Causes Fire and Leads to Child’s Death

This electronic systems case involves the death of a young child from a fire sparked in her family’s minivan by the explosion of its panoramic sunroof. The plaintiff’s three-year-old daughter was playing in the family minivan along with her twin brother.…

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Automobile’s Defective Roof Header Leads to Head and Spinal Cord Injury

This case involves a mid-sized sedan. The plaintiff, a forty-five-year-old man, was traveling south on a major highway when he was struck from the front by the wheel and tire assembly that had detached from a truck that was on…

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Radiation Oncology Expert Witness discusses Medical Malpractice

I have been actively engaged in the clinical practice of Radiation Oncology for the last 40 years. Over the last 10 years I have been asked to participate as a radiation oncology expert witness in a variety of medical malpractice…

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Pediatrics Expert Witness discusses Standard of Care in Medical Malpractice Cases

In over twenty-five years of consulting as a pediatrics expert witness on issues for both plaintiff and defense attorneys, I have seen well over two hundred cases at all stages of the process. Having had the opportunity to follow many…

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Plastic Surgery Expert Witness Opines on Why Patients Sue Plastic Surgeons

As a plastic surgery expert witness, I’ve come to understand that a common misconception among physicians is that legal actions against them are random events that cannot be prevented. Having been hired as a plastic surgery expert witness on many…

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