Orrico v. Beverly Bank

Plaintiff, Beatrice Orrico, appeals from the trial court’s entry of judgment notwithstanding the verdict of a jury that found defendant Beverly Bank (Bank) liable for the wrongful death of plaintiff’s son, Frank. The trial court ruled that the Bank owed no duty to the decedent after he left the premises and that the criminal act of a third person was an unforeseeable, intervening and independent act. Plaintiff contends on appeal that the trial court erred in ruling as a matter of law that the Bank’s undisputed negligence was not a proximate cause of decedent’s death. The Bank cross-appeals…