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From a good update on recent Supreme Court rulings, this note on medical malpractice.

A couple of other cases merit mention. In Celmer v. Rodgers, the 11th District had upheld the trial court’s allowing an expert witness to testify in a medical malpractice case, despite the fact that he hadn’t practiced in seven months. The court adopted a loose interpretation of Evidence Rule 601(D)’s requirement that an expert in such a case had to “devote at least one-half of his or her professional time to the active clinical practice in his or her field of licensure,” finding that the rule was more directed toward determining the expert’s past experience rather than present activity.

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