Ramon Cuevas v. Wentworth Group(075077)

The preeminent role that the jury plays in our civil justice system calls for judicial restraint in exercising the power to reduce a jury’s damages award. A court should not grant a remittitur except in the unusual case in which the jury’s award is so patently excessive, so pervaded by a sense of wrongness, that it shocks the judicial conscience.

In He v. Miller, 207 N.J. 230, 24 A.3d 251 (2011), this Court restated familiar principles that animate our remittitur jurisprudence. The He Court expressed that a jury verdict is presumed to be correct and entitled to substantial deference, that the…