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GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. FARNSWORTH

No. S-7700.

965 P.2d 1209 (1998)

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Kimberly I. FARNSWORTH, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

October 16, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel A. Gerety and Donald C. Thomas, Delaney, Wiles, Hayes, Gerety & Ellis, Inc., Anchorage, Vincent Galvin and Mark V. Berry, Bowman & Brooke, Torrance, California, and David M. Heilbron, Leslie G. Landau, Robert A. Brundage, and Julia C. Wo, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, L.L.P., San Francisco, California, for Appellant.

Neil T. O'Donnell, Richard E. Vollertsen, and Anne E. Kane, Atkinson, Conway & Gagnon, Anchorage, for Appellee.

Before MATTHEWS, C.J., and COMPTON, FABE and BRYNER, JJ.

FABE, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

After experiencing near fatal injuries in a car accident, Kimberly Farnsworth sued General Motors (GM) in strict liability for designing a defective seat restraint system. Following a fiveweek trial, the jury returned a verdict for Farnsworth, awarding her $2,138,973 in compensatory damages and $5,600,000 in punitive damages. The superior court denied GM's motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict and a new trial...

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