Benkendorf v. Advanced Cardiac Specialists Chartered

How courts have described this case

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

• examining adequacy of 3 expert testimony to show standard of care and proximate cause in medical malpractice 4 action
• “Under' some circumstances, a plaintiffs expert may opine as to possible causes of an injury if other evidence supports a causal connection.”
• “Under some circumstances, a plaintiffs expert may opine as to possible causes of an injury if other evidence supports a causal connection.”
• “Ordinarily, a plaintiff in a medical malpractice lawsuit must prove the causal 14 connection between an act or omission and the ultimate injury through expert medical 15 testimony, unless the connection is readily apparent to the trier of fact.”
• rejecting notion that defendant had to rebut plaintiff’s claim
• discussing expert medical testimony establishing causation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).