Bertero v. National General Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• approving a jury instruction allowing the jury to find for the plaintiff in a malicious prosecution action even if only one of the three theories of liability pleaded in the underlying action lacked probable cause
• approving a jury instruction allowing the jury to find for the plaintiff in a malicious prosecution action even if only one of the three theories of liability pleaded in the underlying action lacked probable cause
• stating there is “no reason for permitting plaintiffs ... to pursue shotgun tactics by proceeding on counts and theories which they know or should know to be groundless.”
• approving a jury instruction allowing the jury to find for the plaintiff in a malicious prosecution action even if only one of the three theories of liability pleaded in the underlying action lacked probable cause
• \The vast variety of and disparity between awards in other Cases demonstrates that injuries can seldom be measured on the same scale.\
• improper motive of “hatred or ill will” meriting the award of punitive damages

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