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.

In light of these facts, the defendant-appellant’s briefs argued: “The jury was told to award a nuclear verdict.”

A headshot of D. Chad Nuce. D. Chad Nuce from Pasley Nuce Mallory & Davis. Courtesy photo

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