context: Rule 702 of the Rhode Island Rules of Evidence provides that expert testimony is permissible "[i]f scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of fact or opinion." This Court has held that "expert testimony is required to establish any matter that is not obvious to a lay person and thus lies beyond common knowledge."
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 939 A.2d 1016, 1019, 1022
citation_a.parenthetical: expert testimony required to establish standard of care owed to plaintiff patient by the staff at facility for the disabled
citation_a.sentence: Mills, 824 A.2d at 468 (holding expert testimony necessary to establish the “existence of a causal relationship between a particular toxin and its effect on the human body”); see also Broadley v. State, 939 A.2d 1016, 1019, 1022 (R.I.2008) (expert testimony required to establish standard of care owed to plaintiff patient by the staff at facility for the disabled); Boccasile v. Cajun Music Limited, 694 A.2d 686, 690-91 (R.I.1997) (requiring expert testimony to establish standard of care owed to patient in wrongful death action against doctor and nurse).
citation_b.signal: no signal
citation_b.identifier: 824 A.2d 468, 468
citation_b.parenthetical: holding expert testimony necessary to establish the "existence of a causal relationship between a particular toxin and its effect on the human body"
citation_b.sentence: Mills, 824 A.2d at 468 (holding expert testimony necessary to establish the “existence of a causal relationship between a particular toxin and its effect on the human body”); see also Broadley v. State, 939 A.2d 1016, 1019, 1022 (R.I.2008) (expert testimony required to establish standard of care owed to plaintiff patient by the staff at facility for the disabled); Boccasile v. Cajun Music Limited, 694 A.2d 686, 690-91 (R.I.1997) (requiring expert testimony to establish standard of care owed to patient in wrongful death action against doctor and nurse).