MILLER v. PHILLIPS

No. S-6930.

959 P.2d 1247 (1998)

William Joseph MILLER and Colleen A. Miller, for and on Behalf of their minor child: Gage D. MILLER, Appellant, v. Catherine PHILLIPS, CNM, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

June 12, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C.R. Kennelly, Stepovich, Kennelly & Stepovich, P.C., Anchorage, for Appellants.

Brewster H. Jamieson and Michael B. King, Lane Powell Spears Lubersky, Anchorage, for Appellee.

Before MATTHEWS, C.J., and COMPTON and BRYNER, JJ.


BRYNER, Justice.

The parents of an injured newborn baby sued their midwife, claiming that she panicked during the delivery and negligently caused the injury. A jury found for the midwife. On appeal, the parents claim that the midwife's supervising physician should have been barred from testifying as an expert because he was called only as a fact witness; that testimony concerning the midwife's prior lack of panic should have been excluded as inadmissible character...

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