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Opinions in Louisiana that cite Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp., 623 So. 2d 1257.
- Jo Anna Savant v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2012
- Savant v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. 104 So. 3d 567 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2012
- Martin v. Walker 107 So. 3d 102 La. Ct. App. 2d Cir. 2012
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Nina Skinner v. State of Louisiana, Dotd
La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2012
Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp., et al., reh’g denied, 10/7/93.
- Short v. Terminix Pest Control, Inc. 104 So. 3d 119 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2012
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Granger v. Christus Health Central Louisiana
97 So. 3d 604
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2012
|fvlThe supreme court has also stated, cert.
- Moore v. Stewart 94 So. 3d 1018 La. Ct. App. 2d Cir. 2012
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Gaunt v. Progressive Security Insurance
92 So. 3d 1250
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2012
As such, “the role of an appellate court in reviewing general damages is not to decide what it considers to be an appropriate award, but rather to review the exercise of discretion by the trier of fact.”
- Buckheister v. United States Environmental Services, L.L.C. 97 So. 3d 414 La. 2012
- Jones v. Capitol Enterprises, Inc. 89 So. 3d 474 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2012
- Stoll v. Allstate Insurance Co. 95 So. 3d 1089 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2012
- Pirtle v. Allstate Insurance 92 So. 3d 1064 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2012
- Shirley Langley, Et Ux. v. American Legion Hospital La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2012
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Margaret Montalvo Richard v. Harold Artigue
La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2012
“The standard for appellate review of general damage awards is difficult to express and is necessarily non-specific, and the requirement of an articulated basis for disturbing such awards gives little guidance as to what articulation suffices to justify modification of a generous or stingy award.” cert.
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Richard v. Artigue
87 So. 3d 997
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2012
“The standard for appellate review of general damage awards is difficult to express and is necessarily nonspecific, and the requirement of an articulated basis for disturbing such awards gives little guidance as to what articulation suffices to justify modification of a generous or stingy award.” ce rt.
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Watters v. Department of Social Services
102 So. 3d 118
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2012
5 Cir. 10/27/09), , writ granted, 09-2750 (La.4/23/10), , and aff'd as amended, 09-2750 (La.10/19/10), , cert.
- Caskey v. Merrick Construction Co. 86 So. 3d 186 La. Ct. App. 2d Cir. 2012
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Sam Staub Enterprises, Inc. v. Chapital
88 So. 3d 690
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2012
4 Cir. 4/14/10), , writ denied, 2010-110611 (La.9/3/10), ().
- Kathy A. Darbonne, Et Ux. v. Bertrand Investments, Inc. La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2012
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Sonja Dauzat Deligans, Et Ux. v. Ace American Insurance Company
La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2012
Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp., et al., reh’g denied, 10/7/93.
- Talbert v. Evans 88 So. 3d 673 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2012
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Deligans v. Ace American Insurance
86 So. 3d 109
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2012
Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp., et al., reh'g denied, 10/7/93.
- Adrienne Stelly v. Zurich American Ins. Co. La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2012
- Stelly v. Zurich American Ins. Co. 83 So. 3d 1225 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2012
- Constance Cormier v. Republic Insurance Company La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2012
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Cormier v. Republic Insurance Co.
118 So. 3d 16
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2012
des that: “In the assessment of damages in cases of offenses, quasi offenses, and quasi contracts, much discretion must be left to the judge or jury.” The supreme court has described this discretion as “vast” and “such that an appellate court should rarely disturb an award.” Howard v. Union Carbide Corp., 09-2750, p. 5 (La.10/19/10), -56 ().
- Powell v. Chabanais Concrete Pumping, Inc. 82 So. 3d 548 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2011
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Ezzell v. Miranne
84 So. 3d 641
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2011
1260-61 (La.1993), cert.
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Eunice M. Guidry v. Allstate Ins. Co.
La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2011
Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp., et al., reh’g denied, 10/7/93.
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Guidry v. Allstate Insurance Co.
83 So. 3d 91
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2011
Youn v. Maritime Overseas Corp., et al., reh’g denied, 10/7/93.
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George McCarthy v. Entergy Gulf States, Inc.
La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2011
Co., (the fact finder‘s discretion in awarding general damages is vast and should rarely be disturbed)
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Christina Hoyt Hutto v. McNeil-ppc, Inc.
La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2011
ly disagree about what is an appropriate award of damages in a particular case, but “[i]t is only when the award is, in either direction, beyond that which a reasonable trier of fact could assess for the effects of the particular injury to the particular plaintiff under the particular circumstances that the appellate court should increase or reduce the award.” cert.
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McCarthy v. Entergy Gulf States, Inc.
82 So. 3d 336
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2011
Co., (the fact finder’s discretion in awarding general damages is vast and should rarely be disturbed)
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Hutto v. McNeil-PPC, Inc.
79 So. 3d 1199
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2011
uently disagree about what is an appropriate award of damages in a particular case, but “[i]t is only when the award is, in either direction, beyond that which a reasonable trier of fact could assess for the effects of the particular injury to the particular plaintiff under the particular circumstances that the appellate court should increase or reduce the award.” cert.
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Harold Thibodeaux v. Melinda Trahan
La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2011
In considering whether the award of general damages is excessive, cert.
- Lori Johnson v. David John St. Romain La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2011
- Johnson v. St. Romain 74 So. 3d 836 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2011
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Thibodeaux v. Trahan
74 So. 3d 850
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2011
In considering whether the award of general damages is excessive, cert.
- Reeves v. Grove 72 So. 3d 1010 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2011
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Richard Le v. Nitetown, Inc.
La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2011
The law clearly requires that we must determine “whether the award for the particular injuries and their effects under the particular circumstances on the particular injured person is a clear abuse of the ‘much discretion’ of the trier of fact.”
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Dejoie v. Guidry
71 So. 3d 1111
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2011
In other contexts, the Louisiana Supreme Court has refused to disturb an award unless it is “so gross as to be contrary to right reason.”
- LeBlanc v. PYNES 69 So. 3d 1273 La. Ct. App. 2d Cir. 2011
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Carl Jones, Sr. v. Centerpoint Energy Entex
La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2011
In considering whether the award of general damages is excessive, cert.
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Jones v. Centerpoint Energy Entex
66 So. 3d 539
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2011
In considering whether the award of general damages is excessive, cert.
- Pollock v. TALCO MIDSTREAM ASSETS, LTD. 70 So. 3d 835 La. Ct. App. 2d Cir. 2011
- Deroche v. Latour 71 So. 3d 959 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2011
- Sherrie L. Lafleur v. Shelter Mutual Insurance Co. La. Ct. App. 3d Cir. 2011
- Chambers v. Village of Moreauville 60 So. 3d 125 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2011
- McDonald v. AIG National Insurance Co. 63 So. 3d 240 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2011
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Munch v. Backer
63 So. 3d 181
La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 2011
“The discretion vested in the trier of fact is ‘great’, and even vast, so that an appellate court should rarely disturb an award of general damages.”