Crommett v. Pearson

How courts have described this case

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• affirming the grant of summary judgment when the plaintiff “never suggested to the trial court that he could prove medical negligence without expert witnesses until he responded to the defendant’s motions for summary judgment”
• finding a motion for summary judgment was properly before the Trial Court when the plaintiff had failed to identify an expert witness in 17 months since filing a malpractice suit, despite conceding that an expert would be necessary to prove his claim
• “A jury trial without the requisite proof is a futile exercise, wasteful of judicial time, jurors’ time and the litigants’ time and resources.”
• “A jury trial without the requisite proof is a futile exercise, wasteful of judicial time, jurors’ time and the litigants’ time and resources.”
• “without a doubt, there is no genuine issue of material fact in the record because Collier has no expert to support his claim of medical negligence”
• medical malpractice requires a plaintiff to establish (1) the applicable medical standard of care, (2) a breach of that care, and (3) an injury resulting from that breach of care

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).