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7th Circ. Denies Driver s Bid To Restore $1M Award For Crash
Law360 (December 21, 2020, 10:44 PM EST) A man injured in a collision with a trucking company s big-rig driver was hoisted with his own petard when he refused to accept a reduced jury award and instead opted for a new trial in which he asked for a symbolic verdict and won no damages, a Seventh Circuit panel said Friday.
Richard Spinnenweber had challenged an Indiana federal judge s decision to grant Red River Supply Inc. s bid for a new trial after Spinnenweber rejected the reduction of an initial jury verdict from $1 million to $250,000. But the Seventh Circuit found that the evidence showed he potentially suffered just whiplash.