161491P.pdf   08/31/2017  Michael Bavlsik  v.  General Motors
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-1491
                          and No:  16-1632
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Gruender, Circuit Judge, and Gritzner, 
   District Judge] 
   Civil case - Products liability. The district court erred in granting the 
   defendant's motion for judgment as a matter of law on the failure-to-test 
   portion of plaintiff's negligent-design claim as plaintiffs' evidence 
   regarding duty, breach, causation and damages was sufficient to support 
   the jury's verdict; the court is not convinced the record so clearly 
   demonstrated a compromise verdict that the district court abused its 
   discretion in not recognizing as much, and it did not abuse its discretion 
   in conditionally granting a partial new trial on plaintiff Bavlsik's 
   future damages and on plaintiff Skelly's damages, past and future, and in 
   rejecting defendant's argument that a compromise verdict required a new 
   trial on both liability and damages.