A statement is admissible under the hearsay exception created by Federal Rule of Evidence 807 or a comparable State rule only if circumstantial evidence shows that the affected statement is as trustworthy as the statements that are made admissible by the hearsay exceptions created by Federal Rules of Evidence 803 and 804 or by comparable State rules.

United States v. Jinadu, 98 F.3d 239, 246 (6th Cir. 1996) (upholding trial court's admission of agent's testimony [about defendant's confession to another agent] as statement against defendant Lawal's penal interest....A statement qualifies as a statement against interest for purposes of the hearsay exception for statements against interest only if the statement, at the time the declarant made it, was so contrary to the declarant's interest that a reasonable person in the declarant's position would not have made if the declarant had believed the statement to be untrue.

Hunziker v. Scheidemantle, 543 F.2d 489, 495 n.10 (3d Cir. 1976) (holding, in plaintiff wife's wrongful death and survivial action against defendants aircraft owner, lessee and operator of airport, that testimony of....Although Federal Rule of Evidence 411 bars the use of liability insurance or its absence on the issue of negligence or wrongful conduct, evidence about liability insurance is not barred by the Rule if the evidence is offered to show the existence of a master-servant or principal-agent relationship.

Fed. R. Evid. 902(12) ("In a civil case, the original or a duplicate of a foreign record of regularly conducted activity that would be admissible under Rule 803(6) if accompanied by a written declaration by its custodian or other qualified person certifying that the record: (A) was made at or near the time of the occurrence of the...Federal Rule of Evidence 902(12) provides for self-authentication in a civil case of the original or a duplicate of a foreign business record that satisfies the admissibility requirements of Federal Rule of Evidence 803(6) if the record is accompanied by a written declaration by its custodian or other qualified person certifying that the record (A) was made at or near the time of the occurrence of the matters set forth by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge of those matters; (B) was kept in the course of the regularly conducted activity; and (C) was made by the regularly conducted activity as a regular practice.