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It surprised the defense, and Lawther said he should have had a sidebar that
the defense requested during trial to keep the jury from hearing. Instead,
"very damaging testimony and medically unsupported figures were presented by
surprise," Lawther said. The defense received a report from the plaintiff's expert economist in January calculating Hollins' lifetime health care costs between $4.3 million and $6.4 million. At trial, the expert testified it would cost between $13 million and $14 million to care for Hollins. The plaintiffs had added in the cost of two caregivers that no doctor or expert had recommended, according to court records.
Usually judges don't interfere in jurors' decisions, but Lawther said there were several major grounds to order a new trial in this case: Excessive damages, irregularities in the proceedings that prevented a fair trial and misconduct by Hollins' lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, most well-known as the lawyer who defended Jack Kevorkian, MD. |