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OLIVAS v. PETERSON

No. 4D06-3327.

969 So.2d 1138 (2007)

Guadalupe OLIVAS and The Hertz Corporation, Appellants, v. Shane PETERSON, Christian Rawden, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and Gator Entertainment, Inc., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

November 14, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David F. Cooney and Warren B. Kwavnick of Cooney, Mattson, Lance, Blackburn, Richards & O'Connor, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellants.

Julie H. Littky-Rubin of Lytal, Reiter, Clark, Fountain & Williams, LLP, West Palm Beach, and Gregg A. Schlesinger of Sheldon J. Schlesinger, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Shane Peterson.

BELANGER, ROBERT E., Associate Judge.

This case arose out of a traffic accident involving a Hertz rental vehicle driven by appellant Guadalupe Olivas and another vehicle in which appellee Shane Peterson was a passenger. Liability and damages were highly contested.

The jury awarded Peterson $1 million in past non-economic damages and $4 million in future non-economic damages. The amount of non-economic damages the jury awarded was more than double the $2.25...

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