Significance: This case is significant because the jury awarded significant money for psychological suffering in addition to pain and suffering.
FEATURED CASE FILE: Hall v. VWX Corporation
Significance: The major issue prior to settlement was whether the expert testimony of defendant’s toxicologist was admissible because the testimony purported that Lunn was not visibly intoxicated while at the restaurant, an opinion based solely on Lunn’s blood alcohol count at the time of the accident. Citing New York Court of Appeals decision, Romano v. Stanley, 90 NY2d 444, 450 (1997), holding that a toxicologist’s opinion as to whether a person was visibly intoxicated is speculative, unreliable, and inadmissible when the opinion is based solely on a person’s blood alcohol count, plaintiff successfully argued the toxicologist’s testimony should not be admitted.
