Starke v. Horak

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves three problems in a negligence action involving two personal injury claims arising out of a rear-end automobile collision. At the heart of the appeal lies the contention by defendant Mary Rose Horak that the jury verdicts of $80,000 and $100,000 respectively for plaintiffs Dennis R. and Carole J. Starke are excessive. Ho-rak states in her brief, “It is submitted, by any fair and disinterested examination of the record in this case, that these verdicts are each blatantly excessive and a substantial remittitur should be ordered by this court . . .. A…