on the issue of liability by finding inadequate damages. However, an insufficient damages verdict, standing alone, does not necessarily indicate a compromise. Ordinarily there must be other evidence demonstrating that the deficient monetary award resulted from an impermissible compromise.” Id. at 1513— 14 (internal citations omitted). The jury found zero dollars in damages despite being instructed by the district court to determine the total amount of loss suffered by Knowlton’s estate without adjusting for any percentages of comparative fault it may have found. The plaintiffs expert estimated a total loss to Knowlton’s estate of $10.6 million. Further, there was significant evidence of Knowlton’s close relationship with Grace, even though she lived with her mother, Fla. 3d DCA 1997) (<HOLDING>). The district court stated that the jury’s
holding evidence insufficient to terminate mothers parental rights under section c because mother made arrangements for adequate support of children evidence showed mother left children with father who maintained steady employment and adequately supported children mother knew that father would provide adequate support and mother left children pursuant to agreed divorce decree holding fathers pleadings representing himself to be the father of the children constituted a judicial admission holding zerodamages award inadequate because substantial undisputed and unrebutted testimony showed that deceased father had a close relationship with his children and that the children suffered a great loss as a result of their fathers death holding unwed father entitled to hearing on his fitness as a parent before children could be taken from him after death of their mother holding the prospective adoptive father of surrogate children did not comply with the interstate compact on the placement of children