Peluso v. Singer General Precision, Inc.

Defendants appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff Lillian Peluso as administrator for $519,000 arising from the death of her husband in an explosion and from a judgment in plaintiff National Engineering Company’s (National) favor for $1,727 in punitive damages and for $151,306.91 in property damage occasioned at National’s laboratory, the site of the explosion.

Defendants contend the trial court erred when it (1) prevented their theory of a natural gas explosion from being presented to the jury; (2) prevented cross-examination of Peluso’s expert economist regarding reductions in…