special verdict form did not provide the jury with an opportunity to communicate whether the contract had been breached. 4 . See All v. John Gerber Co., 36 Tenn.App. 134, 138, 252 S.W.2d 138, 139(1952). 5 . Tenn.Code Ann. § 47-18-109(a)(3) (1995) provides that the trial court may award three times the amount of actual damages sustained if it finds that the defendant's use of the unfair or deceptive act or practice under the Act S.C. 255, 359 S.E.2d 532, 536 (App.1987) (upholding an award of punitive damages based on common law fraud and of treble damages pursuant to the South Carolina Unfair Trade Practice Act only because the defendants never filed a motion requiring the plaintiff to elect her remedy); Berry Property Management, Inc. v. Bliskey, 850 S.W.2d 644, 665 (Tex.Ct.App.1993) (<HOLDING>). 7 . See, e.g., Tenn.Code Ann. § 8-50-603
holding that statutory damages were appropriate for each discrete violation of that states deceptive trade practices act holding that where plaintiffs were entitled to recover both treble damages and punitive damages under the illinois nursing home care reform act both issues could be submitted to the jury and the plaintiff could choose which award to be reflected in the judgment holding that where a plaintiff is entitled to treble damages under its state unfair trade practices act and to punitive damages under common law claims of fraud trial court should have submitted each theory of recovery to the jury and then allowed plaintiff to elect between the awards with duplicative elements holding that both punitive and treble damages were recoverable under the texas deceptive trade practices act because each of the plaintiffs claims resulted from a distinct act however because the plaintiff suffered only one compensable injury she could only be awarded one recovery for actual compensatory damages holding consumer claims under the texas deceptive trade practices act nonassignable