Nye v. COM. DEPT. OF TRANSP.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that where there is “no evidence that decedents were conscious at any time after the accident, any award of damages for conscious pain and suffering between the time of injury and the time of death [is] unwarranted.”
• instruction that jury could award damages for pain and suffering error when not applicable to case
• instruction that jury could award damages for pain and suffering error when not applicable to case
• no recovery for pre-impact fright from fatal head-on collision
• trial judge may not instruct jury on inapplicable law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).