Thomas W. Haley, Ann S. Haley v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.

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• examining awards in both automobile accident case and plane crash case
• finding $350,000 award to each parent for loss of love and companionship of 25-year-old son killed in commercial plane crash was excessive by Louisiana standards; ordering new trial unless parents agreed to remittitur of their respective claims to $200,000
• finding $15,000 damages award “for no more than four to six seconds of” pre-impact fear prior to decedent’s death in an airplane crash, “however brief it may have been,” was not “shocking or contrary to the right of reason”
• prior awards may be of some aid in determining excessiveness of a damage award when the controverted award is shown to be greatly disproportionate to past awards for similar injuries

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).