Balderas v. Starks

OPINION

McHUGH, Judge:

¶ 1 Appellant Ricardo Balderas appeals the trial court’s refusal to order additur or grant a new trial after the jury awarded less in damages than he sought. He also appeals the trial court’s admission of testimony from an expert accident reconstructionist retained by Appellee Joseph Starks. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

¶2 On January 1, 2001, Starks’s Mazda MX-6 rear-ended Balderas’s Chrysler New Yorker at a low speed in an icy parking lot. Balderas exited the vehicle after the collision and told Starks that he had been in a prior rear-end accident. Balderas’s vehicle sustained…