{"id":7208,"date":"2019-08-15T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=7208"},"modified":"2019-08-12T00:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T00:24:34","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-reverses-jury-verdict-where-expert-testimony-was-based-in-part-on-barred-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-jury-verdict-where-expert-testimony-was-based-in-part-on-barred-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Reverses Jury Verdict Where Expert Testimony Was Based in Part on Barred Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Illinois Appellate Court for the First District reversed and remanded a decision from a Cook County trial judge after it entered a judgment order following a jury verdict. Scott Gilman drove over one of Sweta Karn&#8217;s feet as he was making a left turn at a Chicago intersection on Oct. 10, 2013. She filed a lawsuit a month later against him and his employer, Aspen Painting Inc. ,for negligence. At the jury trial, the defendants raised the defenses of contributory negligence and failure to mitigate damages.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple expert witnesses testified that Karn suffered \u201csevere and permanent\u201d nerve injury to her left foot. One of the experts, Dr. Oleg Petrov, a witness for the defendants, was questioned about a surveillance video submitted by the defendants that \u201callegedly showed plaintiff, after the date of the injury, walking and standing for long periods of time without any signs of discomfort or pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the person walking in the video was never identified, Dr. Petrov used the video as the basis for his opinion that Karn\u2019s injuries were not severe or permanent. Dr. Dean Stern, who was Karn\u2019s podiatrist and surgeon, testified at the trial that she was not the person in the surveillance video that Dr. Petrov used.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-reverses-jury-verdict-where-expert-testimony-was-based-in-part-on-barred-evidence\/#more-7208\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Illinois Appellate Court for the First District reversed and remanded a decision from a Cook County trial judge after it entered a judgment order following a jury verdict. Scott Gilman drove over one of Sweta Karn&#8217;s feet as he was making a left turn at a Chicago intersection on Oct. 10, 2013. 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