The rule barring the use of liability insurance or its absence on the issue of negligence or wrongful conduct does not bar such evidence about liability insurance if such evidence is offered on an issue other than negligence or wrongful conduct.

Dixon v. International Harvester Co., 754 F.2d 573, 583-584 (5th Cir. 1985) (holding, in plaintiff's products liability action, that evidence of alternatively designed tractors having additional protection was admissible to prove feasibility ).A subsequent remedial measure is not barred by the rule limiting admissibility of subsequent remedial measures if the subsequent remedial measure is offered to impeach a witness or to show any matter (such as ownership, control, or feasibility of precautionary measures) other than negligence, culpable conduct, a defect in a product, a defect in a product's design, or a need for a warning or instruction; but a subsequent remedial measure may be used to show feasibility of precautionary measures only if feasibility has been controverted.

United States v. Gregg, 451 F.3d 930, 933-934 (8th Cir. 2008) ("A defendant can introduce evidence of a victim's violent character to establish conformity therewith in homicide cases where self-defense is raised. See Fed.R.Evid. 404(a)(2) ('Evidence of a person's character ... is not admissible for the...In a criminal trial accused may offer a pertinent character trait of a victim to show the victim's conduct on a particular occasion; i.e., accused may use victim's character "circumstantially," as "circumstantial" evidence of victim's conduct on a specific occasion.

Cf. United States v. Gonzales, 436 F.3d 560, 578-579 (5th Cir. 2006) (holding that the defendants' "compulsory process rights were not plainly violated by the government's failure to produce deported witnesses," considering that....The prohibition, grounded in the Compulsory Process Clause, against deliberate government action that deprives a criminal defendant of the relevant and material exculpatory testimony of a witness may effectively limit the government's use of hearsay evidence against a criminal defendant.