Diemel v. Weirich

This appeal raises the issue of whether it was error for the trial court to refuse to instruct the jury that they could award no damages for future pain and suffering, as requested by counsel for appellant, and in instructing the jury in effect that it might award damages for future pain and suffering, but not for permanent disability. The appellant contends that this constituted error because of the absence of any medical testimony to substantiate plaintiff’s claim, based on her own testimony of purely subjective symptoms, that she would have future pain and suffering as a result of her…