Adam P. Harrington v. Exxon Mobil Corporation (Appeal from Mobile Circuit Court: CV-18-903102).

Summary

The court affirmed the judgment awarding Harrington damages for maritime negligence, holding that substantive maritime law required exclusion of evidence that workers' compensation insurance paid or would pay his medical expenses. The court also held that Harrington's expert testimony did not open the door to that collateral-source evidence because the proposed rebuttal would have emphasized rather than cured the testimony. Harrington's conditional cross-appeal was dismissed as moot because the judgment in his favor was affirmed.