Mecca v. Lukasik

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• following Ammon in holding that plaintiffs' willingness to settle before trial for significantly less money was not to be considered in the court's determination of the excessiveness of jury verdicts averaging $3.5 million for each of five teenagers killed in a car crash
• remand required for evidentiary hearing to determine financial status and ability of defendant to pay, so propriety of delay damages could be assessed
• remand required for evidentiary hearing to determine financial status and ability of defendant to pay, so propriety of delay damages could be assessed
• instruction properly charged jury that damages were compensable “from the moment of the accident until the moment of death”

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