In Dunk v. Kremer, the 18 year old Plaintiff (Respondent at Appeal) was injured in a motor vehicle accident and suffered a tibia fracture and right talus bone fracture requiring surgery. At trial, the jury awarded damages for future loss of income and cost of medical care, as well as $225,000.00 in general damages. The Defendant (Appellant at Appeal) appealed, among other things, the amount of the general damages award.

Ultimately, the Court of Appeal dismissed the Appeal, noting that the matter was in the trial judge's discretion and the general damages award was not so inordinately high as to call for appellant intervention. The Court noted the Plaintiff's young age at the time of the accident, the years of pain she had suffered, the impact of the accident on her day-to-day activities and future plans, as well as that her accident-related injuries were going to cause her significant and serious long-term pain and impairment.

This case also addresses expert reports under Rule 53. Briefly, the Defendant did not indicate they would be calling their expert and provided an unsigned copy of the expert's report. After hearing the evidence of the Plaintiff's expert, the Defendant moved for an order permitting it to call their expert. The trial judge ruled that the expert could be called, but that he would be restricted to the four corners of his report and would not be permitted to comment on developments that had arisen after he had prepared his report. This prevented the Defendant expert from commenting on the likelihood that the Plaintiff would develop arthritis in the future that would leave her "quite disabled". The Defendant appealed on the basis that the ruling prevented their expert from commenting on the oral evidence of the Plaintiff's expert. Ultimately, the Court dismissed this aspect of the appeal and highlighted that the situation was largely the fault of the Defendant.

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