Otis Elevator Company v. Wood

How courts have described this case

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• holding jury argument by plaintiffs’ lawyer suggesting that plaintiff’s cancer was caused by the occurrence made the basis of the suit, when no evidence supported this proposition, was not incurable jury argument
• “If the argument is of a ‘curable’ nature, an objection to it must be promptly made and an instruction requested or the error is waived.”
• “it is the substance, not the form, of the testimony that is determinative
• “[A]n argument may be so inflammatory that its harmfulness could not be eliminated by an instruction to the jury to disregard it. The prejudicial nature of the argument is so acute that it is ‘incurable.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).