CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Opinion & Scientific Evidence
......Lay Opinion
.........Proper Subjects
............Health; Illness; Suffering
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Party properly permitted to give opinion as to own physical condition.

Lay person properly permitted to testify to condition of another's health, based upon own observations.

Lay testimony may be admitted, and may provide for infants as well as adults the basis for a finding of pain and suffering.

Lay witness is competent to testify to opinion, based upon observation of facts perceptible to senses, of health or disease of another.

Lay opinion testimony re extent of accident victim's pain and suffering is admissible.