Reed v. Wimmer

How courts have described this case

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• setting aside an award for future medical expenses where no physician testified that the plaintiff would need additional medical treatment
• “an objection must be interposed at the time the evidence has been offered and the trial court thus be given an opportunity to rule on the admissibility of the evidence.”
• “[T]o the extent our prior cases are inconsistent or incompatible with the West Virginia Rules of Evidence, they have been implicitly overruled by Rule 402.”
• “[E]rror is prejudicial and ground for reversal only when it affects the final outcome and works adversely to a substantial right of the party assigning it.”
• “Apart from the fairly obvious conclusion that most jurors are aware of the law mandating insurance in West Virginia, there is no consensus among jurists as to which party evidence of insurance adversely affects.”
• “Apart from the fairly obvious conclusion that most jurors are aware of the law mandating insurance in West Virginia, there is no consensus among jurists as to which party evidence of insurance adversely affects.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).