A Boone County court should have allowed testimony from an expert witness called by the plaintiff in a wrongful death lawsuit against Columbia Orthopaedic Group and a doctor employed there, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
In a unanimous opinion, the court ruled that Boone County Circuit Judge Gary Oxenhandler should have allowed the testimony of a doctor called by the family of Gerald Kivland, a Florida resident who received surgery from Robert Gaines, a surgeon employed by Columbia Orthopaedic Group.
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