Greer

Defendant Hossam Ali Buzgheia appeals from a judgment and order denying judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) after a jury awarded plaintiff James Robert Greer a total of $321,500 in damages arising from an automobile accident.

Defendant seeks a new trial or a reduction in the judgment on the following grounds: (1) the trial court erred in denying defendant’s motion in limine to exclude evidence of the amount of medical costs billed to plaintiff in excess of those actually paid; (2) the trial court should have granted a posttrial reduction of the damage award to reflect a compromise of plaintiff’s medical bills; (3) the trial court committed prejudicial error in limiting the testimony of plaintiff’s accident reconstruction expert; and (4) the court abused its discretion in permitting plaintiff to call an undesignated medical expert.

Finding no reversible error, we shall affirm the judgment.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Plaintiff was injured when defendant’s pickup truck ran a red light and collided with plaintiff’s pickup truck as plaintiff was making a U-turn on Folsom Boulevard in Sacramento. Soon after the accident, plaintiff complained of low back pain…