Legal Opinion
Prudential Property & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Flynn
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided December 24, 1996No. 95-70-AppealPublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LEDERBERG, Justice.
In awarding damages in this underinsured-motorist ease, an arbitration panel calculated prejudgment interest on its total award of damages without first having subtracted from the award the amount of a settlement that had been collected by the injured party prior to the arbitration hearing. The plaintiff, Prudential Property and Casualty Insurance Company (Prudential), filed a motion in Superior Court to vacate the award of benefits to the defendant, Joyce M. Flynn (Flynn), claiming that the computation of prejudgment interest was erroneous. The trial justice denied…
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