Reduction Of Jury Award, Denial Of New Trial Affirmed By Massachusetts Court

(June 11, 2018, 1:40 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — The Massachusetts Appeals Court on June 6 affirmed the remittitur of a $32 million award to $20 million to the husband of a woman killed by a speeding SUV that crashed into a Cumberland Farms convenience store as she was entering it.  The appeals court also refused to grant the store operator a new trial on the grounds that the trial court had admitted an unreviewed report on 485 prior car strikes at its other stores (Albert R. Dubuque Jr. v. Cumberland Farms Inc., No. 17-P-266, Mass. App.)....

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