Personal Injury Lawyer Blog
The following blog entry is written from a defendant’s position as trial approaches. Reviewing this kind of briefing should help potential plaintiffs and clients better understand how parties in personal injury cases present such issues to the court.
(Please also note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this automobile accident case and its proceedings.)
Paul White, P.A. (date of deposition: January 29, 2009; page and line 31:13-17; 32:10-15)
Q: Are you going to give a medical opinion regarding Mr. Johnson’s back, neck, and pain between his shoulder blade injuries as pertains to his August 9th, 2007, motor vehicle accident?
A:No.
Q: Would it be fair to say that as far as rendering opinions on causation, you are not going to render an opinion on the causation of Mr. Johnson’s back, neck, or pain between the shoulder blades?
A: It would be fair to say that I’m not going to render an opinion on the cause of his symptoms.
Sydney Chu (date of deposition: January 9, 2009; page and line 27:1-6)
Q: And as it pertains to this case, is it true that you will not be offering any biomechanical opinions regarding the accident?
A: You are correct. I will not be discussing biomechanics, injury causation or anything remotely associated with those two topics.
Dr. Sean Finklestein, Ph.D. (date of deposition: February 3, 2009; page and line 42:13-23)
Q: Okay. Let’s move on to the last category, and your last category is that the radiological studies suggest there is not sufficient force to cause the disk injury. Can you comment on the forces involved in that opinion?
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A: And I guess that we should clarify what I was stating is that the radiological reports reveal that there was a protrusion after the accident, that then resolved in the accident radiological study, but the calculations I performed revealed that there was not sufficient force to damage or cause a disk injury. (See Part 4 of 5.)
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