WILLIAM SAYAD, APPELLANT,
v.
JAMES ALLEY, APPELLEE

Fla. 3d DCA | 1987-06-09
No. 86-129
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HENDRY and HUBBART, JJ.
508 So. 2d 485 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (1987) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

[*486] PER CURIAM.

We affirm the judgment for the plaintiff entered on a jury verdict in this intersection automobile accident case upon the holdings that (a) the trial court did not abuse its discretion in restricting the testimony of the defendant’s expert accident reconstructionist to subject matter which had been timely revealed in discovery and in precluding his opinion as to an area which had not, Binger v. King Pest Control, 401 So. 2d 1310 (Fla.1981); (b) the two passing references to “insurance” during the trial required at most a cautionary instruction and did not necessitate a mistrial, Carls Markets, Inc. v. Meyer, 69 So. 2d 789 (Fla.1953); Crowell v. Fink, 167 So. 2d 614 (Fla. 1st DCA 1964); and (c) any alleged error in the exclusion of a prior inconsistent statement by the plaintiff was not properly preserved below. See § 90.614(2), Fla. Stat. (1985); Hoctor v. Tucker, 432 So. 2d 1352, 1354-55 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983); Rezzarday v. West Florida Hospital, 462 So. 2d 470 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984); Diaz v. Rodriguez, 384 So. 2d 906, 907 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980).


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  • S. Motor Co. OF Dade Cnty. v. Accountable Constr. Co., 707 So. 2d 909 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998)
    …er v. Moore, 78 So. 2d 87, 88 (Fla.1955). Thus, improper references to insurance when coupled with a timely curative instruction may render such error completely harmless. See Luster, 78 So. 2d at 88; Carls Markets, 69 So. 2d at 793; Sayad v. Alley, 508 So. 2d 485, 486 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987). [*912] It is clear that the central issues of both the main action and counterclaim is whether either of the parties owed any money to the other under the terms of their oral “cost-plus” agreement. It is equally clear that t…
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