Beynon v. Montgomery Cablevision Ltd. Partnership

A jury in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County awarded $1,000,000 in damages to the Estate of Douglas Beynon to compensate Mr. Beynon’s beneficiaries for the one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half seconds of fright that it assumed Mr. Bey-non must have suffered before crashing into the rear of Mr. Kirkland’s truck. Only by virtue of the statutory “cap” on noneconomic damages that was then in effect was that award reduced to $350,000, which still amounts, at the least, to $140,000 per second of assumed fright. The Majority effectively affirms the judgment entered on that verdict, concluding that…