Government Employees Insurance Co. v. Kisha

Litigants are entitled to a fair trial culminating in a jury verdict rendered after consideration of properly admitted evidence and the law. A jury verdict infused with sympathy for a litigant is based on emotion, not the evidence or the law, apd may be set aside. Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) invokes these well-established principles in this appeal, claiming that it did not receive a fair trial in the underlying declaratory judgment action because the trial court erroneously allowed Madeline Kisha to introduce evidence of her long relationship with GEICO, as an insured,…