Opinion ID: 1608539
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Damages Instructions.

Text: Broadlawns also asserts that the district court incorrectly submitted a number of damages instructions that lacked factual or legal basis. Broadlawns challenges instructions provided on punitive damages, pre-death pain and suffering and pre-death loss of function of mind and body, and present worth of the estate. We previously found no error on another issue relating to the present worth of the estate, and we likewise find no error in submitting the instruction relating to this issue. We also note that the district court properly set aside the jury's punitive damages verdict, and we have determined that damages for pre-death pain and suffering should likewise be set aside. Although these rulings undermine the submission of jury instructions on those topics, the review process has alleviated any prejudice that would otherwise result from submitting instructions on those topics. Finally, we do not believe that Broadlawns suffered prejudice due to the submission of an instruction relating to pre-death loss of function of mind and body. See id. For each of these reasons, we find no reversible error on the issue of the damages instructions submitted to the jury.