DiMeo v. Philbin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the legislature's intent in providing for prejudgment interest was to encourage settlement of tort cases without delay
• determining that prejudgment interest in personal injury action is purely statutory and therefore not an element of damages
• “[T]he Legislature’s primary intention was not to add interest but to establish a device to encourage settlements of cases ....”
• prejudgment interest in personal Kovacs and its progeny are not good law. 15 injury action purely statutory and therefore not an element of damages
• prejudgment interest is ministerial in nature

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).