Court Favors Lost Profits Over Lost Value Damages for Surviving Business
In business tort case, court says damages to compensate plaintiff for loss of goodwill should take the form of lost profits, not total loss of value damages, where defendant employees were not subject to noncompetes and plaintiff was not completely destro ...
Loss of Value Damages Do Not Require Showing of Complete Destruction
In tortious interference with business relations case, 8th Circuit says district court did not err when it allowed plaintiff’s expert to testify to total loss of value where company was not completely destroyed but harmed; damages award was not excessive.
Loss of Value Damages Do Not Require Showing of Complete Destruction
In tortious interference with business relations case, 8th Circuit says district court did not err when it allowed plaintiff’s expert to testify to total loss of value where company was not completely destroyed but harmed; damages award was not excessive.
Court Favors Lost Profits Over Lost Value Damages for Surviving Business
In business tort case, court says damages to compensate plaintiff for loss of goodwill should take the form of lost profits, not total loss of value damages, where defendant employees were not subject to noncompetes and plaintiff was not completely destro ...
Mifflinburg Telegraph, Inc. v. Criswell, Inc.
In business tort case, court says damages to compensate plaintiff for loss of goodwill should take the form of lost profits, not total loss of value damages, where defendant employees were not subject to noncompetes and plaintiff was not completely destro ...
Loss of Value Damages Does Not Require Showing of Complete Destruction
In tortious interference with business relations case, 8th Circuit says district court did not err when it allowed plaintiff’s expert to testify to total loss of value where company was not completely destroyed but harmed; damages award was not excessive.
West Plains, LLC v. Retzlaff Grain Co. (II)
In tortious interference with business relations case, 8th Circuit says district court did not err when it allowed plaintiff’s expert to testify to total loss of value where company was not completely destroyed but harmed; damages award was not excessive.
Loss of Value Damages Does Not Require Showing of Complete Destruction
In tortious interference with business relations case, trial court rejects post-trial attack, finding sufficient evidence to support jury award to plaintiff, including expert testimony about total loss of value to company based on defendants’ misconduct.
West Plains, LLC v. Retzlaff Grain Co. (I)
In tortious interference with business relations case, trial court rejects post-trial attack, finding sufficient evidence to support jury award to plaintiff, including expert testimony about total loss of value to company based on defendants’ misconduct.
A Time Limit on Use of Destruction of Business Method?
Court finds damages expert’s use of destruction of business method is not improper despite a four-year gap between the alleged offending conduct and the company’s demise, and it does not render his calculation inadmissible under Daubert.
MacDermid Printing Solutions, Inc. v Cortron Corp.
Court finds damages expert’s use of destruction of business method is not improper despite a four-year gap between the alleged offending conduct and the company’s demise, and it does not render his calculation inadmissible under Daubert.