Lauren Scottoline v. Women First LLC

Summary

The Supreme Court affirmed the exclusion of the plaintiffs’ causation expert in this medical-malpractice action and the resulting summary judgment for the defendants. The court held that the expert did not provide a reliable scientific basis or differential-etiology methodology for attributing the child’s autism-spectrum behavioral syndrome and other neurological disabilities to birth-related hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. The court also held that the Superior Court acted within its discretion in declining to hold an additional evidentiary hearing because the parties had already developed an adequate record.