David J. Rice v. Community Health Association, D/b/a/ Jackson General Hospital, No

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• reversing district court for permitting plaintiff to recover reputation damages' absent sufficient proof of lost business opportunities
• vacating the district court’s award of consequential damages because the plaintiffs claim constituted only a “nonspecific allegation of damage to reputation”
• contrasting the “universally rejected claims for damages to reputation in breach of contract actions” with “a true consequential damage claim” that West Virginia courts would be “generally hospitable to”
• denying plaintiff’s motion to amend the court’s judgment order to include prejudgment interest where the plaintiff had “waived the right to a jury instruction on prejudgment interest by failing to request the appropriate jury instruction”
• “Courts have universally rejected claims for damages to reputation in breach of contract actions ... .”
• “Courts have universally rejected claims for damages to reputation in breach of contract actions reasoning that such damages are too speculative and could not reasonably be presumed to have been contemplated by the parties when they formed the contracts.”

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