Court Error – Expert Testimony

By: Derek Hawkins//September 21, 2016//

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WI Court of Appeals – District IV

Case Name: Barbara Nahmens v. John Zimmerman

Case No.: 2015AP2422

Officials: Kloppenburg, P.J., Lundsten, and Blanchard, JJ.

Focus: Court Error – Expert Testimony

Barbara Nahmens appeals a circuit court order that dismissed Nahmens’s professional negligence action against John Zimmermann on summary judgment. The circuit court granted summary judgment on the ground that Nahmens failed to name an expert witness to establish the professional standard of care in this case. Nahmens contends that this was error. We conclude that expert testimony was required to establish the professional standard of care to support Nahmens’s negligence action. Because Nahmens failed to name an expert witness at the summary judgment stage, the circuit court properly granted summary judgment to Zimmermann. Accordingly, we affirm.

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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