James Hansen v. Fincantieri Marine Group, LLC

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• holding plaintiff was not required to present expert medical testimony to prove that his chronic serious health condition rendered him unable to work on days in question
• explaining that the Court’s role in evaluating a motion for summary judgment is not to determine the truth of the matter or choose between conflicting evidence and inferences
• the Court must view all the evidence in the record in the light most favorable to the non-moving party and resolve all factual disputes in favor of the non-moving party
• “Some serious health conditions may be chronic, causing episodic rather than a continuous incapacity.”
• “When Hansen’s absences exceeded the frequency of the flare-ups and duration of related incapacity estimated in the certification, FMG did not seek recertification, despite its authorization do so under the circumstances.”
• Doc. 48, p. 13 n.7

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).