Defense Experts

The May 2022 California Court of Appeal case, Kline v. Zimmer, Inc., stands for the general proposition that a defendant may have an expert testify as to possible alternative causes of an injury to rebut a plaintiff’s expert, even if those alternative possible causes do not rise to a reasonable degree of medical certainty....

In Green v. Navab, PSR Partner Adam Shea and attorney Nicholas Yoka obtained a $2.8 Million verdict in a case where the plaintiff’s Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) was hotly contested. There were competing arguments relating to how CRPS is diagnosed and what the criteria are for the diagnosis, and whether treatment had so...

PSR attorney Jonathan Davidi discusses preference motions, what they are, what they require, and how they can help provide leverage and avoid defense delay tactics in your personal injury case.

PSR partner Rahul Ravipudi and attorneys Ian Samson are joined by co-counsel Mike Valiente and Tim Mott of Valiente Mott to discuss Kuhlemeier v. Seastrunk and their strategy of limiting defense experts through deposition. In this case, counsel represented a woman who suffered catastrophic injuries after the defendant rear-ended her in his employer’s vehicle....