Weaver v. McKnight

Summary

The court held that the trial court abused its discretion by excluding two obstetrician-gynecologists from offering causation opinions concerning whether untreated gestational diabetes caused the stillbirth. The experts had relevant practical experience and a sufficient factual basis, and the defendants had not preserved a separate challenge to the scientific validity of their methods. The court also held that a treating physician could testify about an opinion formed during treatment, that the treating nurse's standard-of-care-related suspicions were properly excluded, and that cross-examination concerning a professional organization's censure was improper. The judgment was reversed and the case was remanded for a new trial.