Barrett v. Coast Range Plywood

How courts have described this case

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• holding that it was error to exclude the testimony of medical doctors about a diagnosis of functional overlay, which is a psychological component of an injury, on the ground that the witnesses were not psychologists or psychiatrists
• in workers’ compensation claim, whether rule regarding necessity for expert medical testimony is to be applied depends on whether medical question presented is “uncomplicated”
• examining experts’ qualification to testify about psychological condition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).