( April 29, 2024, 12:08 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment of an Oregon federal court denying a company’s motion for judgment as a matter of law after a jury awarded $1,731,308.80 to a worker who was injured while using the company’s equipment, finding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting expert testimony or err in the giving of jury instructions and that a rational jury could find that the accident occurred as described by the worker’s experts....