Weiner v. Ash

OPINION

LIVERMORE, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the trial court awarding $250,000 in damages for future fear, anxiety, and emotional distress.

The award arises out of an incident in which appellant Steven Ash shot at the appellees, wounding Jeffrey Weiner and causing Merton Weiner to suffer cardiac problems. Ash was tried criminally but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. In the ensuing civil action the court found, among other things, 1) that Ash suffers from paranoid schizophrenia which is currently in remission or controlled by drugs and therapy, 2) that he…