L.D.G., Inc. v. Brown

OPINION

CARPENETI, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

The personal representative of the estate of a woman who was shot and killed by an intoxicated man sought damages, on behalf of the woman's two surviving dependents, from a bar that allowed the man to consume aleo-hol while he was already intoxicated just prior to the shooting. Following a jury trial, the superior court imposed dram shop liability in favor of the personal representative, dismissed the single shareholder of the bar's corporate owner from the lawsuit, and applied a single damages cap to the non-economic damages awarded to the decedent's…