Supreme Court of Delaware

Trial judges may admit qualified biomechanical expert testimony regarding the physical forces involved in automobile accidents, and the effect on the human body those forces may produce, where the relevance, reliability and trustworthiness of that testimony is established by the proffer and is not outweighed by the danger of confusion of the issues or misleading the jury.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/13/2004
• Published 02/13/2004

Judges

• STEELE, Justice:, Before VEASEY, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, STEELE and JACOBS, Justices, constituting the court en banc.

Court

• Supreme Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel L. McKenty (argued) and Steven F. Mones of McCullough & McKenty, P.A., Wilmington, DE, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Frederick S. Freibott of The Freibott Law Firm P.A., Wilmington, DE, for appellee.