Valente v. Resort Enterprises, Inc.

PATTERSON, Judge.

Arlene Valente appeals from a final judgment awarding her $596.66 in damages in an automobile accident ease. She argues that the jury was improperly permitted to consider the rule of comparative negligence. We agree and reverse.

The facts of the accident are simple. Va-lente was driving at fifteen to twenty-five miles per hour on a major thoroughfare when she was broadsided on the passenger side of her vehicle by Bishop’s company truck while it was attempting to cross the road in heavy traffic. The trial concentrated not on the accident, but on the nature and extent of…