Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal reversed and remanded an action from the Volusia Circuit Court in which jurors returned zero damages for the pain and suffering of a man who experienced second-degree burns.
“Reversals on denial of additur are rare and generally limited to situations where the damages are so inadequate as to shock the conscience of the court,” Fifth DCA Chief Judge James A. Edwards, who penned the opinion, held. “This is one of those rare cases.”
Judge James A. Edwards of Fifth District Court of Appeal. (Courtesy photo)
