· 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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