145 N.C. App. 111 - Williams v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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1. “[Elvidence concerning when a litigant seeks legal counsel can, in some instances, be admissible.... [Inquiry concerning when plaintiff hired an attorney is admissible to impeach a litigious plaintiff and is relevant to rebut the existence and extent of plaintiff's injuries from the accident, if evidence exists to support the inquiry on either basis.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lawrence v. Mountainstar Healthcare

2. “Evidence that a person was or was not insured against liability is not admissible upon the issue whether he acted negligently or otherwise wrongfully. This rule does not require the exclusion of evidence of insurance against liability when offered for another purpose, such as proof of agency, ownership, or control, or bias or prejudice of a witness.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 N.C. App. 674 - Williams v. Bell

3. “the attorney-client privilege is not violated when an attorney questions the plaintiff concerning whether she had communications with an attorney on a particular date, as long as such questioning does not probe the substance of the client's conversation with her attorney.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 264 N.C. App. 344 - Gunter by Zeller v. Maher