Heymann v. Allstate Insurance Co.

DUFRESNE, Judge.

This is an appeal by Many Heymann, plaintiff-appellant, wherein he seeks an increase of a jury award of $12,000 in his *862favor and against Allstate Insurance Co., Inc., defendant-appellee, for damages sustained in an automobile-motorcycle accident. Because we find that the trier of fact abused its much discretion in fixing this award, the judgment is increased to $30,000.

The facts of the accident are simply that Heymann was riding his motorcycle shortly after midnight on a boulevard when he was struck from behind by an automobile driven by Sherryl Kay, Allstate’s insured. The…