Personal Injury Law

Sacramento Accident Victim Challenges Jury Verdict, Part 6 of 9

By Moseley Collins, Esq.

The following blog entry is written from a defendant?s position post-verdict. Reviewing this kind of briefing should help potential plaintiffs and clients better understand how parties in personal injury cases present such issues to the court.

(Please note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this car accident/bus accident case and its proceedings.)

At trial, plaintiff proved herself to be a poor historian who could not get her facts straight. She could not remember details of a slip-and-fall in a liquor store after the bus accident. She testified that she made no claim for the subsequent injury, but documents produced at trial proved that a claim was made against Hartford Insurance Company. For more information you are welcome to contact Sacramento personal injury lawyer, Moseley Collins.

Plaintiff exhibited a prominent limp during trial and used a cane at all times in the presence of the jury. She testified that she was unable to walk without a cane and that her limp was always present, in and out of the courtroom. However, four days of surveillance videotape of plaintiff taken immediately before trial began showed plaintiff walking without a limp and without a cane 3 of the 4 days. The only time plaintiff walked with a cane on the videotape was as she was coming out of her lawyer's office on the day prior to trial.

The jury was interviewed post-verdict by both plaintiff and defense counsel. Plaintiff's counsel asked a group of jurors why they ruled that plaintiff was not injured in the accident. One of the jurors responded, observation.?

Full post as published by Sacramento Injury Lawyer Blog on July 21, 2010 (boomark / email).