Category: Anatomic Pathology Expert Witness
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Colorado Court weighs reliable basis of Pathology Expert’s testimony over semantics in medical negligence suit
The Court rejected the Plaintiff’s argument to exclude the Defense expert’s opinion that high mitotic rates correlate with poor prognosis. While the Plaintiff insisted this equated to an unreliable, unsupported “prediction” of causation, the court found the dispute merely semantic. The expert never explicitly opined mitotic rates “predict” malignancy. Rather, he suggested an “association” or…