A plaintiffs lawyer’s “steady stream of insults” and “reprehensible attacks” prejudiced a New York jury that came out with a $40.1 million asbestos verdict earlier this week, according to a motion for new trial filed by the defendant, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

All during trial, Daniel Blouin, a New York shareholder at Simmons Hanly Conroy, resorted to “incurable character assassinations” and “outrageous remarks” about Goodyear, its lawyers and its experts, according to the motion, filed on Tuesday after a jury came out with its verdict, all for compensatory damages.