Expert reports and opinions
show · educate · routeRetained-expert work product — governed by the expert sections at trial and the discovery rules before it.
What this type commonly supports
- Opinions on matters beyond lay understanding
How the gates bear on it
Reliability
Qualification, sufficient facts, reliable principles, reliable application — § 90.702's own four-part frame.
Basis
What the opinion may carry with it is § 90.704's balance.
Disclosure
The civil discovery rule governs expert disclosure mechanics — rule text loaded whole.
The governing units, loaded whole
- § 90.702, Fla. Stat. — testimony by experts
- § 90.704, Fla. Stat. — basis of opinion
- Fla. R. Civ. P. 1.280 — discovery scope and expert provisions
The recurring failure modes
- Opinions at trial that drifted from the disclosed ones
- Basis material smuggling inadmissible content to the jury
Software, not a law firm. This page teaches how Florida's evidence gates generally bear on this type — legal information, not legal advice, and never a prediction about your evidence. Whether a particular item clears the gates in your case is judgment work: an independent Florida attorney can review it and bill you directly. The five-gate frame lives on the Evidence Command Center.