Meka v. Grant Plumbing & Air Conditioning Co.

GRIFFIS, P.J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Satyadev Meka sued Grant Plumbing & Air Conditioning Company and its employee Albert Grube (collectively, “Grant Plumbing”) for injuries he sustained in an automobile accident. A jury determined that Meka suffered $100,000 in damages, but it assessed Meka with forty-percent comparative fault for the accident. Accordingly, the trial court entered a judgment awarding Meka $60,000 in total damages. Meka filed a motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict or, in the alternative, a new trial or an additur of the damages awarded. The trial court denied the…