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By Jeffrey Ivashuk

Torts -- Automobile accident -- Jury misconduct -- New trial -- Trial court abused discretion in granting defendant's motion for new trial on ground that jurors failed to disclose during voir dire that they had been injured in automobile accidents -- In order for juror's nondisclosure of information to warrant new trial, the facts must be relevant and material to jury service, the facts must be concealed on voir dire examination, and the failure to discover the concealed facts must not be due to the want of diligence of the complaining party -- Nothing in jury interview suggests that omitted information would have caused jurors to be biased or sympathetic toward plaintiff -- Record suggests that jurors did not so much conceal their prior accidents as fail to appreciate that disclosure was requiredReported at 33 Fla...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).