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The Court stated that the true furtherance of the law "will be enhanced.
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But, the Court observed that shielding professionals from their own negligence does not further the policies of truth and free disclosure. The Court recognized that the doctrine of witness immunity is founded on the policy "that the paths which lead to the ascertainment of truth should be left as free and unobstructed as possible." Under the protection of immunity, witnesses should not be afraid to come forward for fear of liability or be inclined to color testimony. LLMD appealed again, and in a 4 to 2 decision, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania reversed, changing the scope of the doctrine of witness immunity by holding that the doctrine does not protect expert witnesses who are negligent in forming their opinions. LLMD appealed, and the Superior Court affirmed on the grounds of witness immunity.
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The trial court granted summary judgment for Jackson-Cross on a variety of grounds, after denying summary judgment on the issue of witness immunity.
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LLMD sued Jackson-Cross for professional malpractice. Jackson-Cross later gave LLMD a new calculation, showing lost profits of only $2.7 million dollars.
The court struck the expert witness' testimony and the Plaintiff was forced to accept a settlement offer of $750,000. Because he had not performed the calculations himself, the expert could neither explain the error nor recalculate the lost profits on the stand he conceded that the calculation was wrong due to the error. On cross, however, the defense revealed that the calculation contained a mathematical error. Using a computerized spreadsheet which he had not personally prepared, but which had been prepared in his office, the Jackson-Cross expert testified that LLMD had suffered a loss of $6 million. LLMD hired Jackson-Cross to provide expert testimony on lost profits resulting from a breach of contract. (Of course, some trials never publish final results whether those results changed was unclear.In a surprising change of the common law tradition of witness immunity, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has recently held that the doctrine of witness immunity does not protect expert witnesses who are negligent in forming their opinions. Eight percent of results ended up weaker, while 7% were stronger.
Limiting their analysis to those studies that had been completed at least a year beforehand, to give them time for final publication, Woloshin and colleagues found that of 158 trials whose final results were published following the publication of interim results, most - 85% - had little change. About a quarter were oncology trials, followed in frequency by surgery and cardiology.
More than 400 reported on trials stopped early, leaving 171 that included interim results of studies that were still ongoing. The team found more than 600 papers in PubMed that reported interim results from 2006 to 2015. He presented his findings to hundreds of editors, publishers, and researchers gathered through September 12.
At the Eighth Peer Review Congress - a bit like the Olympics, in that it occurs only every 4 years - Woloshin described what happened when he and his colleagues from Dartmouth and Atlanticare Medical Center in New Jersey went looking for how many other studies did the same thing.
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