Phillips v. Alamed Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting “the important distinction between the question of what ailment or organic failure caused [a patient’s] death and the question of whether [the defendant’s] alleged negligence was the proximate cause 8 of her death”
• “[W]e cannot say that the trial judge abused his discretion by requiring the testimony of a physician and, implicitly, holding that a registered nurse was not competent to testify as an expert on the issue of proximate cause.”
• “[W]e cannot say that the trial judge abused his discretion by requiring the testimony of a physician and, implicitly, holding that a registered nurse was not competent to testify as an expert on the issue of proximate cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).