Martin v. ERMC, II

I,The defendants herein assigned three errors. The first was that the jury abused its discretion in awarding general damages in the amount of $103,000. I agree with the majority that, while at the “high end,” this was not an abuse of the jury’s discretion.

The second of the defendant’s assignments of error is that the evidence did not support a past lost wages award of $30,000. This is where I must dissent.

The majority finds as follows, “[W]e find that the evidence clearly establishes past loss wages in the amount of $8,240.00 for the one year and eight months prior to trial. The jury’s…