Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co. v. Genovese

Appellant, Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company (“Provident”), appeals a final judgment entered after a jury trial, which determined an onset date of disability for Dr. Peter Genovese (“Genovese”). This date differed from the onset date established by a special interrogatory jury verdict in an earlier trial between the *476same parties. The question presented is whether that finding triggered collateral estoppel, thus preventing Genovese from re-litigating the onset date of disability as established in the earlier trial. We find that it does, and reverse. This court will not address the…