Plaintiffs' Case Dismissed via Summary Judgment Because Their Expert Did Not Meet the Newly Defined Expert Witness Requirements Announced by the Tennessee Supreme Court in Shipley v. Williams

The Tennessee Court of Appeals, Western Section, just issued its opinion in Mitchell ex rel. Mitchell v. The Jackson Clinic, P.A., No. W2012-00983-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. Apr. 9, 2013).  The summary states as follows:

This is a medical malpractice case. The trial court granted summary judgment to Appellees, the doctors and clinic, on the basis that the Appellants’ only expert witness was not competent to testify pursuant to the Tennessee Medical Malpractice Act, Tennessee Code Annotated Section 29–26–115. Appellants appeal, arguing that the trial court erred in excluding their expert. Under the Tennessee Supreme Court’s holding in Shipley v.Williams, 350 S.W.3d 527 (Tenn. 2011), we affirm the trial court’s exclusion of the expert’s testimony and its grant of summary judgment. Affirmed and remanded.

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Here's a link to the slip opinion:

http://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/mitchellsopn.pdf