Geryk v. Atlantic Richfield Co.

This is the defendants’ appeal, after a jury trial, in an action for personal injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision.1 The jury returned , a $10,000 verdict in favor of the plaintiff Edmund Lulewicz. The trial court set aside that verdict as inadequate and ordered a new trial limited to the issue of damages unless the parties agreed to an additur of $193,000. The defendants declined to agree and appealed seeking to have the jury’s verdict reinstated, or, in the alternative, a new trial on the issue of liability as well as damages. We find error.

The jury could reasonably have found…