Del Monte Fresh Produce Co. v. Net Results, Inc.

Del Monte Fresh Produce Company appeals a final judgment exceeding $15.7 million in favor of its telecommunications-cost consultant, Net Results, Inc., following a jury trial. We affirm the jury’s and trial court’s determinations that Del Monte breached the parties’ consulting contract, *669but we reverse the jury’s $10,000,000 consequential damages award and the prejudgment interest and attorney’s fees and costs subsequently added by the trial court.1 This is a business damages case in which the computation of Net Results’ “benefit of the bargain” losses requires grade-school arithmetic rather…