Benson v. Tennessee Valley Electric Cooperative

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial court did not abuse its discretion in failing to award costs to successful plaintiffs, in light of large amount of jury verdicts in plaintiffs’ favor
• holding that trial court did not abuse its discretion in failing to award costs to successful plaintiffs, in light of large amount of jury verdicts in plaintiffs’ favor
• construing statute that explicitly excludes evidence of subsequent remedial measures in strict liability cases
• recognizing Anderson’s application of the collateral source rule
• “Our courts have held that collateral source recoveries should not be the subject of a reduction for the defendants in a lawsuit.”
• “[I]t is vital to trace the injury to some specific error in construction or design of the machinery[.]” (quoting Browder v. Pettigrew, 541 S.W.2d 402, 404 (Tenn. 1976) (emphasis in original)); King v. Danek Med., Inc., 37 S.W.3d 429, 435 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2000

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).