Corsetti v. Stone Co.

I agree with the court’s treatment of all but one of the various issues raised by these cross appeals. I do not agree, however, that a new trial on damages is required. Therefore, I dissent from the court’s order in this case and from that part of the court’s opinion which holds that the trial judge erred in excluding evidence of Corsetti’s collateral source income.

As the court itself makes clear, this State has a “collateral-source rule” of long standing. Under that rule, evidence of a plaintiff’s income from collateral sources — accident or disability insurance, or workers’ compensation…