Ashland Hospital Corp. v. RLI Insurance

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• permitting the plaintiff to present to the jury specific damages amounts for all compensable damages except pain and suffering
• precluding plaintiff’s counsel from submitting specific dollar amount regarding damages for pain and suffering but permitting submission of dollar amount regarding other compensable damages if supported with admissible evidence during case in chief
• precluding plaintiff’s counsel from submitting a specific dollar amount regarding damages for pain and suffering, but permitting plaintiff’s counsel to submit a dollar amount regarding other compensable damages if supported with admissible evidence during case in chief
• precluding the plaintiff from referring to defense counsel as “City attorneys” “because it may lead the jury to believe that they may be indemnified by the City of New York, which is commonly viewed as a ‘deep pocket’ for the purposes of any potential judgment”
• “Evidence admitted under . . . Rule [608(b)] is subject to the probative-prejudice balancing test in Rule 403.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).