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2010AP2432 Park Terrace LLC v. Transportation Insurance Company, et al.
Senate passes bill restricting attorney fees (UPDATE)
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The Wisconsin state Senate passed a measure Thursday that attempts to limit the amount of fees attorneys can collect when damages are awarded to consumers who have been harmed. The Republican-backed bill, as originally introduced, would have capped attorneys’ fees at no more than three times […]
Court costs can be recovered after stipulation
A plaintiff who loses at trial can still recover costs if the defendant stipulated to damages that were undisputed at trial.
After two appeals, $11.7 million judgment reduced to $3
Snatching defeat from the jaws of certain victory may be a cliché, but sometimes it is too apt not to use, as a recent opinion from the 7th Circuit demonstrates.
2009AP2154 Cabinet Ingenuity & Design LLC v. Village Park Development LLC, et al.
Property Landlord-tenant; breach; damages; attorney fees
2010AP1758 Bollant Farms Inc., et al vs. Scenic Rivers Energy Cooperative and Federated Rural Electric Insurance Exchange
Torts Nuisance; damages
BLAWG LOG: Pettit on holdover damages; O’Hear on the Commerce Clause
After a landlord has had her rental property returned through an eviction action or the tenant vacating of their own accord, a landlord has the option of pursuing the ex-tenant for money damages.
The challenge of asking for damages
By Sylvia Hsieh Dolan Media Newswires BOSTON, MA — When Carl Bettinger stepped up to the jury box in the summer of 2007 to make closing arguments in a nursing home abuse case, he reminded the jury that his client was not just an old and sick woman, as the defense claimed. She had been […]
2010AP1021 Zavala McDaniel, et al. v. Aldrich, et al.
Torts Medical malpractice; negligence; causation; damages Peri Aldrich, M.D., and her employer, Bellin Health Systems, Inc., are co-appellants in this wrongful death medical malpractice case. A jury found them causally negligent in the death of Gustavo Espinal-Santos, who was treated at a Bellin clinic by two Physician Assistants (P.A.s) under Dr. Aldrich’s supervision. Dr. Aldrich […]
2010AP304 Schwibinger, et al. v. State Farm Mutual Insurance, et al.
Torts Damages; lost earning capacity A jury found that Christopher Kamin’s negligence caused Connie Schwibinger’s injuries and that $71,000 would fairly compensate her. Schwibinger contends the trial court’s denial of her motion to amend the scheduling order precluded her from fully presenting her case and that, under Hanson v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, 2006 [&hel[...]
2010AP132 Low v. Penn Self Storage
Property Rental agreement for self-storage space; damages; amendment of pleadings This action arises out of a rental agreement for self-service storage space between Penn Self Storage and Jane Low. After a jury trial on Low’s claim that Penn violated provisions of WIS. STAT. § 704.90 which governs self-service storage facilities, the court entered judgment in […]
2010AP355 Heritage Farms, Inc., v. Markel Ins. Co.
Torts Forest fires; damages Section 26.21 does not mandate that double damages be awarded in situations where a private owner’s property is destroyed by a forest fire which occurred though negligence. “The legislature’s use of the words ‘may’ in subsection (1) and ‘shall’ in subsection (2) in describing the liability of an individual responsible for [&hell[...]
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