Robert J. Alfonso v. Dr. John C. Lund

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “we believe that New Mexico would not apply the ‘lost chance’ theory . . . [as] New Mexico courts have remained firm in requiring that proximate cause be shown as a probability.”
• distinguishable, however, on facts, because out-of-State expert witness was unavailable because he had suddenly been called out of the country
• competency of physician to testify as an expert in a particular area of medical practice
• a trial court’s finding under Fed. R. Evid. 104(a) that a physician was qualified as an expert in a particular area was not reversible unless such finding was clearly erroneous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).