What is the test for expert testimony in a motor vehicle accident case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rodriguez, G054383 (Cal. App. 2018):
insurance in this day and age. This concept was not so far beyond the ken of the jurors that expert testimony was required to explain it to them. (See generally People v. Jones (2012) 54 Cal.4th 1, 60 [expert testimony is subject to exclusion when it pertains to a topic of such common knowledge that jurors of ordinary education can understand it on their own].)
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