ALABAMA SUPREME COURT OVERRULES DECADES-LONG PRECEDENT AND FINDS LOSS-OF-USE DAMAGES RECOVERABLE FOR DESTROYED PERSONAL VEHICLES
In 1955, the Alabama Supreme Court established a rule that loss-of-use damages in vehicle cases were recoverable only if the vehicle was repairable. Hunt v. Ward, 79 So. 2d 20, 25-26 (Ala. 1955) (the “Hunt rule”). This meant that an interested party could not recover “for both [the] total loss of an automobile and loss…
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