Court Opinion

ID: 9783512
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 19:47:46.74934+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:35:24.870929
License: Public Domain

VICTORY, J.,
concurring.
|,I agree with the majority’s reduction of the amount of damages awarded by the trial court. However, I disagree with the trial court’s method of awarding damages globally based on the location of each plaintiff to the release site. Damages should have been based upon testimony as to an individual’s actual damages, not on *1258expert testimony that it was “reasonable” to assume someone closer to the source would suffer more damage than someone farther away. However, because defendant states in brief that it “does not dispute the trial court’s methodology for fixing the claimants’ damages based on their proximity to the Carbide plant,” I concur in the majority opinion.