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· 5/5/1986

Howle v. PYA/Monarch, Inc.

Citations

  • 344 S.E.2d 157
  • 288 S.C. 586
  • 1986 S.C. App. LEXIS 357

How courts have described this case

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  • allowing psychologist expert witness to offer opinion testimony based in part on inadmissible hearsay as Rule 703, SCRE, now permits
  • psychologist allowed to give expert opinion testimony concerning diagnosis, prognosis, and causation of plaintiff's mental and emotional condition
  • a psychologist was qualified as an expert witness to testify as to diagnosis, prognosis, and causation of mental and emotional disturbance in a personal injury action
  • “a psychologist, once qualified as an expert witness by reason of education, training, and experience, is competent to testify as to diagnosis, prognosis, and causation of mental and emotional disturbance.”
  • an expert’s qualification to “render an expert opinion” on a subject “must depend upon the nature and extent of his knowledge... [and] not upon his claim to [a particular title].”

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Judges: Goolsby, Cureton, Littlejohn

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