Pilot v. Hill

MORTENSEN, Judge:

¶ 1 In an effort to promote proportional discovery practices, Utah adopted tier designations in 2011 whereby parties must plead an amount of damages that correlates to one of three specified tiers. These tier designations have far-reaching effects on how parties handle discovery during a case. Corresponding with this, tier designations also impose limits on the amount of damages a plaintiff can ultimately recover. Robert Pilot seeks to circumvent those intended effects after trial by amending his original tier designation from Tier 2 to Tier 3, a change that would increase…