Court Opinion

ID: 9579141
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:51:55.551202+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:34:29.296597
License: Public Domain

Judge WELLS
concurring.
As the opinions of our appellate courts have made clear, the battle of experts begins very early in the usual medical malpractice case. See, e.g., Beaver v. Hancock, 72 N.C. App. 306, 324 S.E.2d 294 (1985).
In this case, defendants, through their forecast, were able to show by expert witnesses that they had not violated any standard *473of care owed by them to plaintiff. This forecast required plaintiff to forecast through an expert witness that defendants had violated such a duty, which plaintiff simply failed to do.