Court affirms $4.5 million verdict in a medical malpractice case and rejects defendant's challenge to jury instruction on availability of insurance benefits

Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's multiple contentions of error, but vacates sentences for armed robbery and conspiracy due to merger error

Court affirms kidnapping and drug convictions but vacates and remands for resentencing on duplicative family-violence order violations

Defendant transit authority appealed the court's denial of its post-trial motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or new trial in plaintiff bus passenger's personal injury case. The court concluded that its denial of post-trial relief should be affirmed. The court reasoned that defendant was not entitled to assert the jolt and jerk doctrine where plaintiff's theory of negligence focused on an obstruction in the aisle of the bus that she was riding, and not on the fact that the bus driver slammed on the vehicle's brakes.