Court Opinion

ID: 9790520
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 01:54:22.300022+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:15:35.077455
License: Public Domain

BAKES, Justice,
concurring specially:
I concur in the result reached by the majority. This case involves the two-trial situation where a first judgment rendered in favor of the plaintiff is reversed only in part, the fact and the dollar amount of plaintiff’s injuries being specifically affirmed. As in this case, where the percent of recovery by the plaintiff in the second trial is established to be at least as high as, or higher than in the first trial, the court was correct in allowing interest on the award in the second judgment, back to the date of the first judgment. I also agree with the majority that “[tjoday we go this far, and no further.” Except for this narrow exception carved out by today’s case, the rule is, and continues to be, that prejudgment interest is not awarded in tort cases. With that understanding, I concur in the result of today’s opinion.