Associated Indemnity Corp. v. Dixon

AKIN, Justice.

Associated Indemnity Corporation, a worker’s compensation carrier, appeals from a judgment based upon a jury finding Mark Dixon totally and permanently incapacitated as a result of an occupational disease incurred while a meat unitizer for Kroger supermarkets. We reverse and remand on the ground that two prejudicial and inadmissible letters from Dixon’s attorney were admitted into evidence.

Associated contends that the trial judge erred in admitting into evidence the medical files of two doctors, Dr. Jewel Daughety and Dr. Bruce Faust. Associated specifically complains of a copy…