{"id":731,"date":"2016-11-23T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/?p=731"},"modified":"2019-10-17T05:40:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T10:40:42","slug":"appellate-court-reverses-trial-judge-improperly-excluded-expert-testimony-regarding-maternal-forces-labor-cause-childs-brachial-plexus-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/appellate-court-reverses-trial-judge-improperly-excluded-expert-testimony-regarding-maternal-forces-labor-cause-childs-brachial-plexus-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Appellate Court Reverses Trial Judge Who Improperly Excluded Expert Testimony as Cause of Brachial Plexus Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Wisconsin appellate court has ruled that a trial judge improperly excluded a defendant physician\u2019s expert testimony. The expert wanted to testify about the maternal forces of labor being a cause of the plaintiff child\u2019s brachial plexus injury. <\/p>\n<p>In this case, Leah Bayer and her husband filed a lawsuit against her obstetrician, Dr. Brian Dobbins, claiming that he mishandled their infant\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aafp.org\/afp\/2004\/0401\/p1707.html\">shoulder dystocia<\/a>, causing the baby girl to suffer a permanent brachial plexus injury.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant doctor contended that the child\u2019s injury came from maternal forces of labor. This is probably the most common and over-used defense in a birth trauma injury cases. The Bayer family then filed a motion <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Motion_in_limine\">in limine<\/a> and requested that the judge exclude the defendant\u2019s expert testimony related to the maternal forces of labor theory. The trial judge granted the motion. <\/p>\n<p>However, the appellate court reversed. Whether expert testimony is admissible under the Daubert standard depends on whether an expert is qualified and uses a methodology that is scientifically reliable and whether the testimony will assist the trier of fact to determine a fact in issue.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/birth-injury-lawyer\/appellate-court-reverses-trial-judge-improperly-excluded-expert-testimony-regarding-maternal-forces-labor-cause-childs-brachial-plexus-injury\/#more-731\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wisconsin appellate court has ruled that a trial judge improperly excluded a defendant physician\u2019s expert testimony. The expert wanted to testify about the maternal forces of labor being a cause of the plaintiff child\u2019s brachial plexus injury. In this case, Leah Bayer and her husband filed a lawsuit against her obstetrician, Dr. Brian Dobbins, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,19,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birth-injury","category-brachial-plexus-injury","category-obstetrician-negligence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Appellate Court Reverses Trial Judge Who Improperly Excluded Expert Testimony as Cause of Brachial Plexus Injury &#8212; Chicago Birth Injury Lawyers Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Wisconsin appellate court has ruled that a trial judge improperly excluded a defendant physician\u2019s expert testimony. 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