Experts in Pennsylvania must rely on scientific authority and apply that authority to the facts of the case. Moreover, "res ipsa loquitur dressed up as expert opinion" is inadmissible under ...

A medical malpractice suit can return to a trial court with a jury instruction to consider certain circumstantial evidence in addition to direct evidence following a split decision from the state ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has recently said that to apply the principles of Res Ipsa Loquitur, it is necessary that a 'Res' is present to establish the allegation of medical negligence. Res Ipsa ...

A few years back, with only seconds left in the closing arguments of a debate tournament, a young man, Eli Kaplan, looked up from his notes, put down his pen and stared at the judge, asserting his ...

Every law student knows res ipsa loquitur, Latin for “the thing speaks for itself,” first applied in an 1863 lawsuit in which a barrel fell from a window and hit a passerby. The court ruled in the ...