Jury awards reflect times
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Jury awards during 1991 were marked by an increase in multi-million dollar judgments and an increased willingness of corporations to settle cases before going to litigation. From the several hundred verdicts of $1 million or more, one of the more salient trends was jury anger against insurance companies that was demonstrated in cases involving bad faith over failure to pay claims. Another prominent trend was the emergence of women trial lawyers who won multimillion-dollar verdicts.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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1991's largest verdicts
Article Abstract:
Cases are profiled in which large jury awards were won by the plaintiff in 1991. The information is broken down by category with the areas of focus being asbestos, corporate, defamation, employment, insurance bad faith, intellectual property, legal malpractice, lender liability, libel, medical malpractice, personal injury, products liability and wrongful death litigation.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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Some awards are just uncollectable
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Damage caps and the inability of defendants to pay have limited the value of many impressive jury awards in 1991. Statutory law concerning uninsured defendants with no assets limit the collection of awards to structured payments which greatly diminishes the amount received. The most significant cases where awards were diminished by caps or were uncollectable are profiled.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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