In any medical malpractice liability action, as defined in K.S.A. 60-3401 and amendments thereto, in which the standard of care given by a practitioner of the healing arts is at issue, no person shall qualify as an expert witness on such issue unless at least 50% of such person's professional time within the two-year period preceding the incident giving rise to the action is devoted to actual clinical practice in the same profession in which the defendant is licensed.
K.S.A. 60-3412
Expert witnesses, qualifications
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case University of Maryland Medical System Corp. v. Waldt (2009)
Most recently applied in University of Maryland Medical System Corp. v. Waldt (November 2009)
L. 1986, ch. 229, § 17; July 1.
Official source: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Kansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.