Tire Shredders, Inc. v. ERM-North Central, Inc.

Defendants ERM-North Central and ERM-Enviroclean-North Central (collectively “ERM”) appeal from a jury verdict requiring ERM to pay $1,300,000.00 as damages to Plaintiff Tire Shredders, Inc. (“TSI”) for the negligent destruction of a shredding machine owned by TSI. For the reasons set forth below, we uphold the jury verdict and affirm the challenged evi-dentiary rulings of the trial court.

Factual and Procedural History

ERM entered into a contract with Nissan Industrial Equipment Company (“Nissan”) under which ERM agreed to destroy and dispose of some fiberglass boats at Nissan’s facility in…