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· 11/29/1978

Foster v. McKeesport Hospital

Citations

  • 394 A.2d 1031
  • 260 Pa. Super. 485
  • 1978 Pa. Super. LEXIS 4186

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding expert opinion, quoting verbatim from another expert’s report, inadmissible because it was based on nothing more than belief that the non-testifying expert was competent
  • medical opinion of expert physician cannot be based soley upon the opinion of an out-of-court physician
  • expert opinion testimony can be founded, in part, on the opinions of other experts

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Judges: Spaeth, Watkins, Jacobs, Hoffman, Cercone, Price, Van Voort Spaeth

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