Conrad v. Manor

This is a claim for injuries to and the death of an elderly nursing home patient. The claim resulted in a multimillion dollar jury verdict. On appeal the nursing home challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support liability for one of the injuries — a femur fracture — to the patient. We conclude that the evidence is sufficient to support liability. The nursing home also challenges the damage award and the court’s special verdict form, which, it claims, accommodated an improper award of double damages. But the nursing home took no exception to the verdict form at trial and therefore…