E.G. Thompson and Betty Thompson v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company

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• reject- ing the argument that a 20-minute limit for closing arguments was prej- udicial in a 4-day trial with several witnesses and exhibits presented
• “[W]hen the verdicts are special verdicts a party is not required to object to the inconsistency before the jury is discharged in order to preserve that issue for a subsequent motion before the district court.”
• “where . . . expert testimony is offered on an issue that a jury is capable of assessing for itself, it is plainly within the trial court’s discretion to rule that testimony inadmissible because it would not even marginally ‘assist the trier of fact’”

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