Timothy Joel Thomas v. Randell Heard and Donna Heard Timothy Joel Thomas v. Laura Wells, as Guardian Ad Litem And…

Summary

The court held that the evidence was sufficient for the jury to find that Thomas acted wantonly by driving through a stop sign after voluntarily consuming alcohol and prescription medication, and it affirmed the judgments on the wantonness claims and the awards of costs. The court initially remanded because the trial court had not stated its reasons for denying remittitur of the punitive-damages awards. After the trial court supplied those reasons, the court affirmed the punitive-damages awards as nonexcessive. Separate opinions were presented in the record, but none are included here because the case metadata identifies no separate opinions for extraction.