Rendleman v. Clarke

OPINION

MURPHY, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Commercial Insulators, Inc., brings this appeal from a judgment confirming a jury verdict in favor of appellee, Rufus Clarke, and awarding him $184,685.80 in actual damages, $500,000.00 in punitive damages, plus prejudgment interest, for injuries he sustained when he slipped and fell in fireproofing on a construction site. Appellant raises six points of error alleging the trial court erred in admitting certain evidence of other falls and other complaints, and in refusing to submit to the jury a question and an instruction on premises liability.…