Sentences with phrase «policy award jury»

Another public policy, the Future Policy award jury of experts made up of governments, universities, international organizations and civil society, selected to be among the top seven, was the innovative 4 per 1000 Initiative.

Not exact matches

But the $ 5 million jury award followed many other seven - figure awards in fatal and disfiguring dog attack cases which the victims have been unable to collect either from uninsured dog owners or from insurance companies which have successfully contended that the dog owners voided coverage by violating the terms of their policies.

You must first go to court and a jury will determine how much you should potentially be awarded above the policy limits.

-- $ 6 million settlement on behalf of the parents of 13 - year - old boy who drowned in an apartment complex swimming pool (2016); — $ 528,000 jury verdict in Philadelphia for a worker injured when he fell through scaffolding (2015); — $ 700,000 arbitration award for a school teacher who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury in a car accident (2016); — $ 1 million policy limit settlement for a man injured in an automobile accident.

The amount of liability coverage available through the other driver's policy will influence what you can actually expect to receive in a settlement or jury award.

This is because if the injured plaintiff gets a jury award for more than your insurance policy limits, you, personally, can be held responsible to pay that portion of the judgment.

Provided coverage advice to an international insurance company in a matter where a Missouri jury awarded $ 355 million in compensatory damages and $ 35.5 million in punitive damages against a financial institution for a trust that was intended to fund «pre-need» funeral policies that would cover all future funeral - related needs.

If you must pay damages due to a settlement, judgment or jury award, your umbrella coverage will pay the damages, up to the policy limit.

A heartwarming story comes out of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan about a jury verdict that awarded a $ 2 million policy to an elderly widow after the life insurance company, United of Omaha, declared the policy to have lapsed when she and her husband failed to make a timely premium payment while he was dying in the hospital.

Your homeowners, property and auto policies may provide substantial liability limits, but juries can award sums that exceed those limits.

Even though your underlying policies may provide substantial liability limits, it is not uncommon today for juries to award damages that exceed those limits.

Specifically, umbrella coverage is for people who want protection against a large jury award that is not covered in their standard policy.

«Say a jury awards you $ 400,000, but your policy is for $ 100,000,» Emmette says.

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