On March 16, 2017 a
Motion,Ex Parte
was filed
involving a dispute between
Urban, Justin,
and
Interstate Electrical Services Corp.,
Weston, Keith,
for Torts
in the District Court of Middlesex County.
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
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MIDDLESEX, ss. : SUPERIOR COURT
. C.A. No. 1781CV00814-L2
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JUSTIN URBAN, )
“Plaintiff ) 2/19/2021
. )
v. )
)
KEITH WESTON and INTERSTATE )
ELECTRICIAL SERVICES CORP., )
Defendants )
)
PLAINTIFF’S MOTION IN LIMINE SEEKING TO PRECLUDE DEFENDANTS FROM
OFFERING ANY EVIDENCE OF COLLATERAL SOURCE INCOME
‘Now comes the plaintiff, Justin Urban (“the plaintiff”), and hereby moves, in limine, for a
pre-trial order from this Court precluding the defendants, Keith Weston and Interstate Electrical
Services Corp. (“the defendants”), from either offering into evidence or mentioning in front of
the panel of judges any evidence or information pertaining to the payment of the plaintiff's
medical bills by any other health insurance company or provider for the treatment he received as
a result of the serious injuries sustained in the September 12, 2014 motor vehicle accident. As
reasons for this motion, the plaintiff states that under well-settled principles of Massachusetts
law, any such evidence is barred by the so-called “collateral-source rule” and would be
extremely prejudicial to the plaintiff's case because “jurors might be led by the irrelevancy to
consider plaintiffs claims unimportant or trivial or to refuse [the plaintiff] a verdict or reduce
{it],. believing that otherwise there would be unjust double recovery.” Corsetti v. Stone, 396
Mass. 1, 16-17 (1985). The reasoning behind keeping such information away from a jury applies
equally well to the panel of judges in this case.
Document Filed Date
February 23, 2021
Case Filing Date
March 16, 2017
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Z2z] Zor! — MlLewe@) witdevT O”yEcTran. Uy 16 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ! MIDDLESEX, ss. : SUPERIOR COURT . C.A. No. 1781CV00814-L2 ) JUSTIN URBAN, ) “Plaintiff ) 2/19/2021 . ) v. ) ) KEITH WESTON and INTERSTATE ) ELECTRICIAL SERVICES CORP., ) Defendants ) ) PLAINTIFF’S MOTION IN LIMINE SEEKING TO PRECLUDE DEFENDANTS FROM OFFERING ANY EVIDENCE OF COLLATERAL SOURCE INCOME ‘Now comes the plaintiff, Justin Urban (“the plaintiff”), and hereby moves, in limine, for a pre-trial order from this Court precluding the defendants, Keith Weston and Interstate Electrical Services Corp. (“the defendants”), from either offering into evidence or mentioning in front of the panel of judges any evidence or information pertaining to the payment of the plaintiff's medical bills by any other health insurance company or provider for the treatment he received as a result of the serious injuries sustained in the September 12, 2014 motor vehicle accident. As reasons for this motion, the plaintiff states that under well-settled principles of Massachusetts law, any such evidence is barred by the so-called “collateral-source rule” and would be extremely prejudicial to the plaintiff's case because “jurors might be led by the irrelevancy to consider plaintiffs claims unimportant or trivial or to refuse [the plaintiff] a verdict or reduce {it],. believing that otherwise there would be unjust double recovery.” Corsetti v. Stone, 396 Mass. 1, 16-17 (1985). The reasoning behind keeping such information away from a jury applies equally well to the panel of judges in this case.