Kathy L. Lavoie, Formerly Known as Kathy L. Labelle v. Pacific Press & Shear Company, a Division of Canron Corp., and Canron Corp.

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• noting that “Rule 49(b) instructs the trial court how to proceed when there are inconsistencies between the answers to the interrogatories and the general verdict”
• holding the verdict to be a different classification than that labeled on the verdict form, and collecting cases
• finding verdict form was a general verdict with interrogatories despite the “unusual nature” of the form used
• finding that the defendant waived its objection to an allegedly inconsistent verdict, despite Seventh Amendment reexamination concerns, as the defendant had “abundant opportunities” to timely raise the objection but failed to do so and raised it for the first time on appeal
• form asking jury whether defendant was liable under each of four alternative theories constituted general verdicts on different legal theories
• \[L]itigants do not get another opportunity to assign as error an allegedly incorrect charge simply because the jury's verdict comports with the trial court's instructions.\

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