Wallach v. Allstate Insurance

*316KISTLER, J.

Plaintiff suffered injuries in three separate automobile accidents. During the trial on the first accident, the court instructed the jury that it could hold defendant Allstate Insurance Co., responsible for any “enhancement or aggravation of plaintiffs injuries caused by the subsequent accident [s]” if the enhancement or aggravation would not have occurred but for the first accident. On appeal, the Court of Appeals held that the trial court erred in giving that instruction, reversed the trial court’s judgment, and remanded for a new trial. Wallach v. Allstate Ins. Co., 206 Or App…