Jaime Guzman v. Melvin Jones

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• holding that plaintiff not required to purchase insurance, thus entitled to recover entire amount billed by providers
• addressing spoliation in 2 Case: 22-40020 Document: 00516605438 Page: 3 Date Filed: 01/10/2023 No. 22-40020 the civil context
• affirming denial of sanctions and adverse inference instruction when the moving party “produced no evidence suggesting bad faith.”
• affirming trial court’s denial of the defendants’ motion for sanctions for spoliation of evidence on the basis that the defendants had failed to establish that the spoliator acted in bad faith
• “Bad faith, in the context of spoliation, generally means destruction for the purpose of hiding adverse evidence.”
• “We permit an adverse inference against the spoliator or sanctions against the spoliator only upon a showing of ‘bad faith’ or ‘bad conduct.’”

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