Sims v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

Appellant Kelly Jo Sims was plaintiff below in an action against her uninsured *384motorist carrier. She appeals a judgment entered after a jury trial.1 We affirm.

First, appellant claims the trial court erred in failing to grant a mistrial where, during a trial recess, one of the jurors handed the defense attorney a magazine advertisement regarding specially designed furniture which supposedly alleviates chronic back pain. The juror had found the article while reading a magazine in the jury room. We find no abuse of discretion in the trial court’s decision to (1) excuse the one juror who handed…