The shakeout from a state Supreme Court precedent that set guidelines for handling remittitur motions is not good news for plaintiffs, as a pair of recent rulings illustrates.

In He v. Miller, 207 N.J. 230 (2011), the court held that the motion judge must allow each side to raise relevant precedents in similar cases for the purpose of comparison, and the judge must explain on the record which cases impacted the remittitur decision and how.