Building Structures, Inc. v. Young

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiffs failure to make such a request, while the jury was still empaneled, waived the insufficiency or irregularity of the verdict and precluded the granting of a new trial
• holding that the failure to object to a defective verdict at a time when the jury was present operated as a waiver of that ground for a new trial
• providing that on timely objec- tion, a party is entitled to have the inconsistent verdict resub- mitted to the jury for clarification
• modifying quotation from prior case to replace references to general and special damages with the more modem references to noneconomic and economic, respectively
• noting the general rule that a jury cannot award punitive damages on a fraud claim in the absence of an award of actual damages
• explaining in dicta that the plaintiffs’ claims, which involved breach of contract, fraud, and quantum meruit, were not subject to the noneconomic damages cap because the cap would “apply in a civil action seeking damages arising out of bodily injury”

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