How much compensation is paid to an expert in a medical malpractice case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Stony Brook v. Superior Court, 101 Cal.Rptr.2d 67, 84 Cal.App.4th 691 (Cal. App. 2000):
section 722, which permits discovery of how much compensation an expert receives in a particular case, notes "[t]he tendency of some experts to become advocates for the party employing them." (Cal.Law Revision Com. com., 29B pt. 2 West's Ann. Evid.Code (1995 ed.) foil. 722, p. 357.) "Just as payment in [a particular case] is some evidence of advocacy, so too would be evidence that the particular expert usually or always testifies for one side of a particular class of lawsuit." (Allen v. Superior Court, supra, 151 Cal.App.3d at p. 451, 198 Cal.Rptr. 737.)
[84 Cal.App.4th 699]
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