Hansen v. Crown Controls Corp.

Crown Controls Corporation and International Insurance Company, Crown's excess-liability insurer, appeal from a judgment against them. The judgment was entered on a jury verdict awarding damages to the plaintiffs for injuries sustained by Mark L. Hansen when the dockboard on which he was driving a forklift truck collapsed. Crown, which manufactured the forklift truck, asserts that the trial court erred: (1) in formulating its jury instructions and the special verdict; (2) by not ordering a new trial because of alleged juror misconduct; and (3) by not ordering a new trial because of the…