Karla Robinson v. Geico General Insurance Company

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• holding that expert testimony should be admitted if it “advances the trier of fact’s understanding to any degree”
• holding Rule 702 requires that “the area of the witness’s competence matches the subject matter of the witness’s testimony.”
• explaining expert testimony can assist a jury if it helps the jurors understand an issue “to any degree”
• explaining Rule 702 “is ‘satisfied where expert testimony advances the trier of fact’s understanding to any degree” (quoting 29 Charles Alan Wright & Victor James Gold, Federal Practice and Procedure: Evidence § 6265 (1997))
• most courts have held that physi- cian with general knowledge may testify regarding medical issues that specialist might treat in clinical setting
• requirement that expert testimony must assist the trier of fact “is satisfied where expert testimony advances the trier of fact’s understanding to any degree”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).