Defendants in a $10.1 million medical malpractice verdict out of Cobb County asked the Court of Appeals for a new trial on Wednesday. The defendant-appellants argued that the plaintiff's trial counsel, Jay Sadd and Dan Epstein of Slappey & Sadd, used improper language when they asked the jury to hold the defendant doctors responsible for their client's injuries and invoked the doctors' multimillion-dollar salaries in closing.