Myers v. Beem

STERNBERG, Judge.

This is an appeal from a legal malpractice action in which the jury found for the defendant. The plaintiff contends that the trial court erred by refusing to apply the “collateral source rule,” and by not directing a verdict in his favor on the issue of liability. We disagree, and, therefore, affirm.

The defendant represented plaintiff in a negligence action against Saint Anthony Hospital Systems and one of its orderlies. The plaintiff claimed that while he was a patient at the hospital, the orderly injured him by causing a gurney on which he was riding to collide with a metal…