Pedigo v. Carey

STEPHENSON, Justice.

On appeal from a jury verdict in a personal injury case where the jury did not award damages for pain and suffering, the Court of Appeals reversed for a new trial on the question of damages alone. We granted discretionary review and reverse that portion of the Court of Appeals’ decision that grants a new trial on damages alone.

The accident which resulted in this lawsuit occurred on a three-lane section of the highway. This three-lane section extends for approximately eighteen hundred feet. Carey had been following a tractor trailer truck driven by Pedigo, and a short…