Baltimore v. B.F. Goodrich Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reasoning case required expert testimony in part due to plaintiff’s pre-existing injuries and symptoms
• requiring expert testimony as to causation where plaintiff’s depression and anxiety was potentially traceable to many sources, including the defendant’s conduct, marital discord, and a discrimination lawsuit that the plaintiff had initiated before the accident
• expert must say, “to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, that [the malpractice] played a substantial part in bringing about” the injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).