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The plaintiff, Maida E. Demeule, commenced this negligence action against the defendant, Linda M. Morin-Binder, seeking damages for personal injuries allegedly sustained from a motor vehicle accident in May 2004 ("the accident"). The plaintiff now moves in limine to introduce evidence at trail of medical bills written off by the plaintiffs medical care providers. The defendant objects, The plaintiff also moves to take videotaped depositions. The defendant assents in part. On January 8, 2007, the court held, a hearing on these matters. After a review of the parties' arguments and the applicable law, the court finds and rules as follows.

NOW COMES the plaintiff, Heath Christiansen, by and through his attorneys, Schuster, Buttrey & Wing, P.A., and, by way of Objection to the defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment As To The Measure of Medical Expense Damages, respectfully states as follows:

Plaintiffs are all of the children and grandchildren of Helen V. Meding, and are the sole income and remainder beneficiaries of the Helen V. Meding Trust (the Trust). The Trust names two cc-trustees, Attorney John L. Fairbanks and Dartmouth National Bank, the predecessor of defendant Fleet Bank - NH. The will appoints John Fairbanks as executor, and Dartmouth National Bank as alternate executor if Fairbanks dies or otherwise fails to qualify. On December 28, 1989, John Fairbanks was indicted by the Sullivan County- grand jury for theft. He immediately disappeared and has not yet been apprehended. There appears little doubt that Fairbanks, as executor, stole significant assets from the Meding Trust. Plaintiffs seek damages from defendant for the funds stolen by Fairbanks arguing that the Bank, as co-trustee, breached its fiduciary duties to-them as beneficiaries of the trust.

BRODERICK, C.J. This case comes before us on interlocutory appeal from a ruling by the Superior Court (Mohl, J.), see Sup. Ct. R. 8, declining to dismiss negligence and wrongful death actions filed by the plaintiff, Michelle Alonzi, as administratrix of the estate of Glenn Hopkins, against defendant Northeast Generation Services Company (NGS). Because we overrule Park v. Rockwell International Corp., 121 N.H. 894 (1981), the touchstone case relied upon by the trial court, and uphold the constitutionality of the challenged death benefit provision of the Workers’ Compensation Law, see RSA 281-A:26, IV (1999), we reverse and remand.