Laramie v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

The defendant, Sears, Roebuck & Company (Sears), appeals the verdict reached in this products liability case following a jury trial in Superior Court (Brennan, J.). Sears asserts that the trial court erred in denying Sears’ motions for directed verdict, in allowing one of the plaintiffs’ witnesses to testify as an expert, in admitting into evidence an exemplar pictograph warning, in precluding Sears’ counsel from conducting cross-examination about a prior lawsuit arising out of the same incident, in allowing a medical journal article to be introduced into evidence, and in denying Sears’…