Armstrong v. Gordon

OPINION

SULLIVAN, Judge.

Appellant-Defendant, William Armstrong, appeals following a jury trial in which the jury awarded damages to Appel-lee-Plaintiff, Mary Gordon, in the amount of $452,200 for injuries sustained in a car accident. Upon appeal, Armstrong makes two claims, one of which we find disposi-tive: whether the trial court erred in excluding evidence of Gordon’s pre-existing medical problems with her neck, including those injuries allegedly related to prior automobile accidents.

We reverse and remand for a new trial.

On the night of July 6, 2002, Gordon, who was twenty-eight at the time…