Opinion ID: 1189073
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Text: The amended complaint alleged that Kaiser contracted with Union Oil for engineering, procurement and construction services for a uranium ore processing mill. Kaiser subcontracted with Centric for the construction of pre-engineered metal buildings to house the mill facilities and equipment. These buildings were to be lined with fiberglass panels. Centric eventually procured the buildings and the liner panels from Kirby through Kirby's franchisee, Drake. The panels were manufactured and sold to Kirby by Reichhold, and were not flame retardant in accord with specifications prepared by Kaiser. Gardner-Zemke, Electric Services and M.M. Sundt were all subcontractors on the jobsite the day a fire broke out and consumed one of the buildings lined with the fiberglass panels, and Boyles was a welder who, the record indicates, was the one responsible for starting the fire. The plaintiffs charge that the fire would not have occurred if the fiberglass panels had been flame retardant. The various defendants were sued on theories of negligence, breach of warranty, breach of contract and strict liability in tort. The trial judge granted motions which eliminated all of plaintiffs' claims for breach of contract, breach of warranty and strict liability, and granted the summary judgment to one contractor-defendant, Electric Services Co. The case then went to trial against Kirby, Centric and Gardner-Zemke on negligence theories only, with the jury returning a verdict for $8,392,216.90. Kirby does not contest the jury's finding of negligence, and outlines the issues for our review as follows: A. Plaintiffs did not sustain their burden of proof with respect to damages. B. The judgment of the trial court was not entered in conformity with the verdict of the jury and the Wyoming Comparative Negligence Act. C. Even if the Wyoming Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act was pertinent to calculation of the verdict, the [trial] court did not properly apply the statute.