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No. 34747 - Andrea Karpacs-Brown, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of her Mother, Elizabeth Karpacs, and the Estate of her Father, Andrew Karpacs v. Anandhi Murthy, M.D.

FILED
November 24, 2009

Workman, Justice, dissenting:

RORY L. PERRY II, CLERK SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA

There is an old superstition among lawyers that when it comes to jury damage awards, the more lines for a jury to fill in, the greater the damages might be. In the present case, the Appellant made no effort to separate economic and non-economic damages on the jury verdict form in what may have been a strategic gamble made in hopes that the jury would return a lower monetary award. The jury award

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