Lee's Mobile Wash v. Campbell

We granted certiorari to review the court of appeals’ reversal of zero noneconomic damages awarded to a motorist injured in an automobile accident when the jury found both causation and injury. The jury in this case, after assigning causation to the co-petitioners, Thomas Southcott and Lee’s Mobile Wash, and finding injury to the respondent, James Campbell, proceeded to award “$0” in noneconomic damages to Campbell. In an unpublished opinion, the court of appeals reversed the jury award under the assumption that Campbell necessarily had incurred compensable, noneco-nomic damages because he…