Sloas v. CSX Transportation, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the collateral source rule provides that “compensation from a collateral source should be disregarded in assessing tort damages”
• providing abuse of discretion standard for review of Fed. R. Civ. P. 59(e) denial of motion to reconsider
• “That a benefit comes from the defendant ... does not itself preclude the possibility that it is from a collateral source.”
• “The substantive rule . . . carries with it an evidentiary rule requiring exclusion of evidence of any collateral benefits”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).