Court Opinion

ID: 9472051
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 03:48:09.80074+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:42:43.314073
License: Public Domain

ORDER OF COURT
ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
Petitioners argue that the remittitur we ordered exceeds the amount of interest that the exhibit added to the economic losses incurred from the date of the complaint to the date of trial. In a sense, this is correct, but it misunderstands our opinion. The exhibit, for example, calculates the pre-complaint lost earnings from August 20, 1979 to November 30, 1979 at $6,664. The exhibit adds interest of $2,674. This added interest (amounting to 40 percent of *239the loss) must consist of two parts: (a) interest for the several month period up to the filing of the complaint on August 26, 1980 and (b) interest for the several year period from the filing of the complaint until the estimated time of trial on June 1, 1983. The petitioners are entitled to recover the first part, but not the second, for New Hampshire’s “pre-judgment interest” statute automatically adds that amount of interest (on the pre-complaint loss) to the award. Our calculations were designed to reflect this reading of the exhibit. Nothing petitioners say convinces us that our calculation was incorrect.
The petition for rehearing is denied.