California Court of Appeal

Judgment in favor of defendant-hospital in an action where the jury found defendant's employee provided negligent care to plaintiff, a dependent adult, while he was in defendant's care but no causation, is affirmed, where: 1) the trial court, on the objection of a party who has made a complete but untimely compliance with the expert witness exchange requirements of Code of Civil Procedure section 2034.260, has the authority to exclude from evidence expert testimony offered by a party, plaintiff here, who has completely and unreasonably failed to comply with these same requirements prior to the discovery cutoff date; and 2) the trial court did not abuse its discretion in excluding plaintiff's expert's testimony.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/21/2014
• Published 05/21/2014

Judges

• HOCH

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel