Timmons v. Royal Globe Insurance Co.

OPALA, Justice.

Four issues are presented by this appeal from a postjudgment order: [1] Does the prejudgment interest authorized by 12 O.S. 1971 § 727(2) 1 apply only when recovery is upon a cause of action [claim] for personal injury or also when a severed element of recovery allowed and separately identified in the jury verdict may be termed to be one for an injury to the person, either bodily or psychic in character? [2] Assuming that prejudgment interest attaches to every qualified item of recovery rather than merely to the character of the claim pressed, did the recovery for…