Berry v. Auto-Owners Insurance

STEPHEN A. HIGGINSON, Circuit Judge: *

Marcus Berry was injured in a car accident in February 2012 and has required medical treatment for chronic back pain ever since. Defendants—an insurance company and the driver that caused the accident—appeal a sizable jury award that has already been reduced by the district court. They argue that the district court abused its discretion by failing to order a new trial or remittitur on future medical damages, and by only reducing the jury’s award of general damages from $900,000 to $400,000. Finding no reversible error, we affirm.

I. Background

On February…