Tag: COVID-19
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Emergency Medicine Expert Not Allowed to Opine on Implicit Bias
Following her husband’s death from COVID-19 complications, Plaintiff I’Esha Short (I’Esha) brought this action seeking damages for the medical care he received at the St. Charles County Jail. Defendants sought to exclude the testimony of I’Esha’s lone expert, Joel Blackburn, a former medical director at a jail with extensive experience in emergency medicine. Emergency Medicine Expert…
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Naturopathic Medicine Expert Not Allowed to Opine on the Hospital Management of COVID-19
Plaintiff Vanessa Buss brought a disability accommodation claim against her former employer Defendant PeaceHealth. Buss offered the report of Dr. Colleen Huber, a naturopathic doctor, to support her assertion that PeaceHealth could have accommodated her by offering ivermectin as COVID-19 prophylaxis. PeaceHealth filed a motion to exclude Huber’s testimony because she is unqualified “to render…
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Infectious Disease Expert Was Allowed to Opine on Masking and Testing
Eight former Redmond firefighters sued the City of Redmond (“City”) after being terminated for refusing COVID-19 vaccinations on religious grounds. They argued the City should have let them continue working with masking and testing rather than requiring vaccination. Plaintiffs filed a Daubert motion to exclude the testimony of the City’s expert, Dr. John Lynch. Infectious…
