Attorneys do not have the unqualified right to ask potential jurors about their ties to an opposing party’s insurer during jury selection, the Missouri Supreme Court has ruled. In a 6-1 ruling issued Aug. 13, the court affirmed a circuit ...

Tagged with: Insurance Question Ivy v. Hawk jury selection Missouri Supreme Court

Where plaintiffs in a medical-negligence case challenged the judgment against them arguing that the trial court erred by refusing to give their attorney extra time so that he could ask the insurance question after he forgot to ask it during ...

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Where the plaintiffs in a wrongful-death, medical-negligence case argued that the trial court committed reversible error by denying them the right to ask their approved insurance question, the judgment is reversed and remanded because the proper foundation for the question ...

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