Hobbs v. Harken

LAURA DENVIR STITH, Presiding Judge.

Mr. Harken appeals a judgment against him in this personal injury action arising out of a four-car collision. He argues that the trial court erred in permitting an economic expert to testify to Mr. Hobbs’ lost future wages based on the assumption that Mr. Hobbs’ vertigo and its effect on his work would continue unabated for twenty years, where Mr. Hobbs failed to introduce evidence at trial that his vertigo was reasonably certain to continue unabated for that period. We agree that where, as here, the only medical evidence showed that Mr. Hobbs had yet to…