Case: FMLA/Expert Witness (W.D. La.)

An expert in “physician job placement” can testify at trial for the defense that a radiologist didn’t mitigate her damages after she was fired following Family and Medical Leave Act leave for the treatment of breast cancer, even though the expert doesn’t have a college degree and has never worked as a vocational expert, qualified as an expert witness, or published any articles about physician recruitment. There are many different types of experts, including non-scientific ones, and the medical center’s expert has 25 years of professional experience as a physician recruiter with a sufficient basis for opining that the radiologist ...