Wiley v. L3 Commc'ns Vertex Aerospace, LLC

DIETZ, Judge.

*356 Plaintiffs Harry Wiley and Gerald Gilman secured a default judgment against Defendant L3 Communications Vertex Aerospace, LLC after the company mistakenly missed its deadline to respond to the complaint. The trial court later set aside the damages portion of its award and held a trial on damages. The jury awarded compensatory and punitive damages to both Wiley and Gilman, totaling more than $750,000 each.

As explained below, we affirm in part and vacate in part. We hold that Gilman lacked standing to pursue his claims because he failed to *357 disclose the claims in his pending…