Court Partially Guts Expert Testimony in Student Athlete’s Negligence Lawsuit Against Dartmouth

A federal judge has dealt a blow to the claim of a student athlete, who alleges that Dartmouth College was negligent when the school’s Athletic Trainer and its Strength and Conditioning Coach for Field Hockey and Football permitted, or encouraged, the student athlete to do weight training exercises that could exacerbate injuries she had suffered eight months earlier in a car accident. Specifically, the court denied Dartmouth’s motion to preclude the testimony of one of the plaintiff’s e