Legal Opinion
Wendell Strout Jr. v. Central Maine Medical Center
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided June 10, 2014No. Docket And-13-320PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSilver, J.
[¶ 1] Central Maine Medical Center (CMMC) appeals from a judgment on a jury verdict entered in the Superior Court (Androscoggin County, Clifford, J.) in favor of Wendell Strout Jr., in his medical malpractice action against CMMC. CMMC argues that the court erred by admitting in evidence one sentence of a letter from CMMC’s president to Strout because (1) the entire letter was inadmissible pursuant to 24 M.R.S. § 2907(2) (2013), (2) the statement was part of an offer to compromise, and (3) the statement’s probative value was substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice. We affirm…
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