A state Superior Court panel has affirmed a $7.8 million verdict against Consol Energy Inc. in favor of two men who were injured when a Consol staircase that they were descending collapsed. The ruling upholds the final judgment of Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Judge David N. Wecht, now a Superior Court judge, who denied Consol’s post-trial motions and tacked on delay damages to the jury’s multimillion-dollar verdict.
In May of last year, Wecht denied Consol its motion for post-trial relief in a verdict that was among the state’s top 100 in 2010.The unanimous three-judge panel, led by Judge Mary Jane Bowes, was the first appellate court to adopt and uphold Pennsylvania’s Rule of Civil Procedure allowing the itemization of damages, which came as a 2004 amendment to the rules, according to an attorney involved in the case.
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