Green v. Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc.

This is an appeal by Patrice Green, Executrix of the Estate of Francis Green, deceased, from an order of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, denying the appellant a new trial in a wrongful death action. On appeal, the appellant claims that an attorney for one of the appellees made inappropriate and prejudicial remarks during his opening and closing statements and that consequently the trial court should have awarded a new trial. The appellant also claims that the circuit court made certain erroneous eviden-tiary rulings.

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FACTS

The appellant’s decedent, who during trial was referred to as…