A dental patient who claimed to have had the wrong tooth pulled—and who was permitted to call the oral surgeon “incompetent” on the witness stand—had a $50,000 jury award upheld by a New Jersey appeals court.
The court, in Colon v. Robinson, also approved the plaintiff’s use of a general dentist, rather than a specialist, as an expert witness.
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