Roy v. Gray

{¶ 1} Defendants-appellants Daniel Gray and the Shaw Group, Inc., appeal the trial court’s judgment, entered following a jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs-appellees Lawrence and Kathy Roy, denying their motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or, alternatively, for a new trial. We reverse the trial court’s judgment because the jury’s verdict finding Gray and the Shaw Group negligent was based on improper and prejudicial expert accident-reconstruction testimony from a police officer who had investigated the accident and improper opinion from this police officer and the Roys’…