McMillin v. Union Electric Co.

HANNA, Judge.

A jury trial resulted in a verdict in favor of the defendant finding the plaintiff 100% at fault. Plaintiffs appeal claiming the court erred by allowing defense counsel to inject insurance into the case during his voir dire questioning about the worker’s compensation claims of the panel and in not granting a mistrial after defendant’s counsel stated during his closing argument that the real defendant in the case was defendant’s employee, thereby inferring that Union Electric was not the defendant. We affirm.

Union Electric’s employee, Russell Barbour, drove a truck into the Tipton…