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· 1/29/2002

Coffey v. Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program

Citations

  • 558 S.E.2d 563
  • 37 Va. App. 390
  • 2002 Va. App. LEXIS 47

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the evidence failed to establish a specific, non-birth-related cause of injury when the doctor’s opinion did not identify one \to a reasonable degree of medical certainty\
  • holding that the evidence failed to establish a specific, non-birth-related cause of injury when the doctor's opinion did not identify one \to a reasonable degree of medical certainty\
  • concluding opinion not stated to requisite reasonable degree of medical certainty where physicians gave opinions based on “inconsisten[cies]” and “feeling[s]”

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Judges: Willis, Elder, Annunziata

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