How have courts considered the need for up to 26 expert witnesses at trial?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Shaw v. Standard Life Assurance Company, 2006 ABQB 156 (CanLII):
Illustrating that numbers alone may not determine an application, in Murdoch v. Balfour, a jury was granted despite the need for up to 26 experts to testify at trial because the case was not complex. In particular, there were no pre-existing injuries or conditions, and no conflicting expert evidence, no reconstruction, no complex loss of income claim. Instead, the real issue was merely the credibility of the plaintiff’s injuries.
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