Hand & Wrist Center of Houston, P.A. and SCA Houston Hospital for Specialize Surgery, L.P. v. Republic Services, Inc.

The majority finds that the trial court committed reversible error because it failed to take into account amounts paid prior to trial in calculating the prejudgment interest. I respectfully dissent.

First, factually, this record does not support the conclusion that the trial court did not take those pretrial payments into account. The jury awarded appellants Hand & Wrist and SCA damages in the sum of $1,113.14 and $13,017.45, respectively. The jury heard evidence of the pretrial payments and, thus, took them into account. We cannot and do not know how the jury “took the payments into account”…