Bolton v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

How courts have described this case

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• extending spoliation principles to parly that destroyed physical evidence after its expert inspected it
• the defendant scrapped a bus that allegedly caused an accident before plaintiff had an opportunity to inspect it
• pain and suffering award proper because paramedic who accompanied decedent to the hospital testified that she was able to respond to verbal commands
• pain and suffering award proper because paramedic who accompanied decedent to the hospital testified that she was able to respond to verbal commands
• defendant’s expert had altered and destroyed the bus involved in the collision and was alleged to have caused a wrongful death
• trial court properly excluded expert testimony based on the physical inspection of a bus alleged to have caused death of plaintiff because defendant destroyed the bus before plaintiff had the opportunity to inspect it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).