Palumbo v. Shapiro

PAUL A. BONIN, Judge.

|TIn this lawsuit Bonnie Palumbo claims that several attorneys negligently failed to prevent an earlier lawsuit for personal injuries from becoming abandoned due to non-prosecution for more than three years. This lawsuit was tried before a jury, and the trial judge submitted a special verdict form to the jury. The jury completed the special verdict, but its answers to the special written questions were indisputably inconsistent with each other. Rather than return the jury for further deliberations, the trial judge entered a judgment reflecting the jury’s inconsistent…