Daubert, Judgment Rulings In Nursing Home Malpractice Case Upheld By 4th Circuit

(February 4, 2020, 4:37 PM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A trial court properly struck affidavit statements by an expert as contradictory in a medical malpractice case against a nursing home and correctly awarded the home summary judgment for lack of evidence that the death of a woman with Alzheimer’s disease was caused by poor care at the home, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held Jan. 15 (John Walter Riggins v. SSC Yanceyville Operating Company, LLC, et al., No. 18-2191, 4th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 1367)....