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Fifth District: Verdicts and Damages

By Matt Conigliaro, Esq.

Where a jury finds for a plaintiff but awards no damages, and no objection is made to the verdict, the trial court should enter judgment in the defendant's favor. So said the Fifth District in this decision. Judge Monaco authored an interesting special concurrence that explained how a more fair result in this particular case would have been a new trial, but the matter was not properly preserved.

Full post as published by Abstract Appeal on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).