Phillips v. Ficarra

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• holding that defense counsel's ex parte communications with plaintiff's treating physician would violate section 455.241(2
• concluding that error in excluding medical records was not harmless where records contradicted defendant’s theory of the case
• concluding that error in excluding medical records was not harmless where records contradicted defendant's theory of the case
• holding that “where the exact status of [physician] was ambiguous and both appellant's attorney and the doctor himself did not consider him a treating physician, we cannot conclude that the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to strike [physician’s] testimony.”
• physicians records admissible as business records when parties had stipulated that a records custodian was not necessary
• error to fail to send appellant's MRI scans to the jury after trial court advised jury that it would get all evidence; the inference that the MRI scans were not to be considered evidence would be devastating to appellant's case

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