Ballard v. Warren

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

1. When these appeals were before this Court, we held the trial court erred in refusing to admit evidence of insurance payments paid on behalf of the plaintiff, because she and her husband misled the jury by testifying they had to pay their medical bills themselves and they had thus “opened the door” to be impeached by evidence that their bills were paid by insurance. Ballard v. Warren, 211 Ga. App. 23 (456 SE2d 589).

On certiorari, the Supreme Court combined this case (Case No. S95G1171) with another which it considered of identical import, Suber v. Luke (Case No.…