EXPERT WATCH 21: THE EXPERT WHO FAILED TO CONSIDER NEW EVIDENCE IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL AND “WHO WAS NOT PARTICULARLY OPEN TO RECONSIDERING HIS OPINION”

Here we look at a judgment about medical evidence in a personal injury action. The issue was one of causation - whether an earlier injury to the claimant's leg "caused" a later decision to have that leg amputated.  The critique that the judge makes of the expert is not that they were partisan, nor t...