A New Jersey appeals court kicked a medical malpractice case back to the trial court over the credentials of a doctor the plaintiffs tried to use as an expert witness.
In an opinion released Thursday by the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division, the panel decided that New Jersey plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases must provide expert testimony from physicians with the same board certifications as the defendant doctor if the treatment at issue involved multiple specialties.
The case involved the 2020 death of April Carden from complications allegedly caused by the prescription drug allopurinol. Carden’s estate sued her ...
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