Scott v. Garfield, 454 Mass. 790 (2009)
- Citation
- Scott v. Garfield, 454 Mass. 790 (2009)
- Parent Document
- Scott v. Garfield, 454 Mass. 790 (2009)
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts (state)
- Effective Date
- 2009-09-15
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660 charsMoreover, under the “collateral source rule,” we have held that a defendant may not show that a plaintiff has received other compensation for his injury from some other source. Corsetti v. Stone Co., 396 Mass. 1, 16-17 (1985). “The rationale behind this so-called ‘collateral source rule’ is that the receipt of such income does not lawfully reduce the plaintiffs’ damages, ‘yet jurors might be led by the irrelevancy to consider plaintiffs’ claims unimportant or trivial or to refuse plaintiffs’ verdicts or reduce them, believing *801that otherwise there would be unjust double recovery.’ ” Id. at 17, quoting Goldstein v. Gontarz, 364 Mass. 800, 809 (1974).