Wintz v. Hyatt Hotels Corp.

PRITCHARD, Presiding Judge.

Respondent was injured by the collapse of the skywalks at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, where, on the evening of July 17, 1981, she was attending a popular tea dance with her husband. Respondent was awarded a verdict of $1,500,000, for which judgment was entered. Her husband, Francis E. Wintz, was awarded $500,000 for his loss of respondent’s consortium, but he declined to accept a remittitur of $400,000, and a new trial was alternatively ordered in his case. [It is said in respondent’s brief that Mr. Wintz’s case was retried and the verdict was paid.]

By Point I,…