CLODGO BY CLODGO v. Bowman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that witness immunity doctrine insulates a court-appointed witness from liability premised upon medical malpractice
• holding that witness immunity doctrine insulates a court-appointed witness from liability premised upon medical malpractice
• applying privilege to medical malpractice claim based on doctor’s prior erroneous testimony in a paternity proceeding
• explaining that statements made in the pleadings, at trial, or in argument in the regular course of judicial proceedings, which are pertinent and material to the relief sought, are entitled to judicial immunity and there is no civil liability for making such statements
• “Regardless of the tort contained in the complaint, if the communication was made in connection with a judicial proceedings [sic] and was material and relevant to it, the privilege applies.”
• judicial immunity insulated a court-appointed medical expert witness from liability premised upon malpractice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).