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· 3/29/2001

Hawes v. Chua

Citations

  • 769 A.2d 797
  • 2001 D.C. App. LEXIS 81
  • 2001 WL 303552

How courts have described this case

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

  • commonality of insurance company insufficient in absence of proffer of substantial connection such as showing that expert is agent of insurer
  • under substantial connection test, trial court did not abuse discretion in excluding evidence that defendant physicians and defendants’ expert witness all were insured by same company
  • “the standard of care focuses on the course of action that a reasonably prudent doctor with the defendant’s specialty would have taken under the same or similar circumstances”

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Judges: Schwelb, Farrell, Reid

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