Court overturns $1 million loss-of-consortium award

A $1 million damage award for a husband’s loss-of-consortium claim is too much — particularly when the wife received just $186,400 for her injury, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. As the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals remanded Calvin Kingman’s claim against Dillard’s Inc. to the federal district court in Kansas City, it instructed the lower court to reconsider its judgment. “It’s no surprise,” St. Louis attorney Thomas Walsh said of the decision.

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Court overturns $1 million loss-of-consortium award

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