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· 9/14/2001

Lombard v. Rohrbaugh

Citations

  • 551 S.E.2d 349
  • 262 Va. 484
  • 2001 Va. LEXIS 113

How courts have described this case

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  • permitting plaintiffs cross-examination of defendant’s expert to show prior income received from defendant’s insurance company
  • where general prohibition on mention of insurance interferes with litigant's right to cross-examine witness concerning interest or bias, trial court should not prohibit proper cross-examination
  • where general prohibition on mention of insurance interferes with litigant's right to cross-examine witness concerning interest or bias, trial court should not prohibit proper cross-examination
  • “[T]he responsibility for balancing the competing considerations of probative value and prejudice rests in the sound discretion of the trial court.”
  • \[T]he responsibility for balancing the competing considerations of probative value and prejudice rests in the sound discretion of the trial court.\
  • probative value of evidence that witness, although not employee of defendant’s insurer, received more than $100,000 per year in payments from that insurer outweighed possible prejudice to defendant

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Judges: Lemons

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