PRETRIAL ADJUDICATION
...Summary Judgment & Summary Adjudication
......Declarations & Affidavits
.........Experts
............Competency
3 Cards On This Topic:

Expert’s decl. properly excluded where failed to show training, experience or skill that would qualify witness to give admissible opinion about vaccine or causation issues.

Declaration in which declarant’s opinion is based on another’s depo testimony and case documents held not competent evidence.

While expert must be competent, rules of qualification have been relaxed; evidence of standard from related specialties and in similar locales permitted.