DocketNumber: No. CV89 0260810S
Citation Numbers: 1992 Conn. Super. Ct. 6091
Judges: BELINKIE, STATE TRIAL REFEREE
Filed Date: 6/23/1992
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 4/17/2021
The court finds itself somewhat puzzled by this claim. The CT Page 6092 extent to which the jury found the plaintiff's evidence on her claimed special damages consisting of medical and wage claims is, of course, unknown. "The matter of damages is peculiarly one for determination in the trial court and the decision can be disturbed only from considerations of the most persuasive character . . . . . . something more than a doubt of its inadequacy must exist." Huak v. Zimmerman,
The court, as indicated, is puzzled, simply because it is unable to grasp the plaintiff's reasoning that there is some relationship between the jury award for economic damages and that for non-economic damages. According to the court's calculations, the claimed medical specials totalled some $21,862.62. It is logical to conclude that the difference between this figure and $38,000.00 represented the jury's award for the wage claims. It would be entirely conjectural to what extent the jury lent credence to the plaintiff's claims for wage loss and/or loss of earning capacity. It would be just as conjectural to attempt to find a relationship between the awards for non-economic and economic damages.
"The ultimate test is whether the jury's award falls somewhere within the necessarily uncertain limits of just damages or whether the size of the verdict so shocks the sense of justice as to compel the conclusions that the jurors were influenced by partiality, prejudice, mistake or corruption. . . ." Marin v. Silva,
The motion to set aside the verdict and to order an additur is denied.
BELINKIE, STATE TRIAL REFEREE