· 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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