Sentences with phrase «compare damage awards»

It enables users to search, analyze and compare damage awards.

In other words, the Plaintiff's net recovery would be considered in determining costs consequences when comparing damages awards with offers to settle.

Although a trial court may grant remittitur on the grounds that the award is disproportionate to the injuries suffered, courts have specifically rejected comparing damage awards as a means of measuring excessiveness.

Not exact matches

Compared with a dead or damaged baby, the case of a woman claiming she did not give informed consent, or was traumatised by unnecessary treatment, even if proved, would make little impact in terms of the financial award.

A post at ScienceInsider surveys the damage, including a decline of $ 1.55 billion compared to 2012, 703 fewer research grants, no inflationary awards, and cuts in continuing grants.

The average damages awards for cases involving journalistic publications (newspaper, television or radio broadcast) versus non-journalism cases were compared.

The total damage award for intangibles includes pain and suffering damages and can be grossly inadequate when compared to the actual medical expense damage amounts.

Victims in Kentucky are at an advantage when compared with states that operate under the contributory negligence rule, which bars victims from recovering a damage award if he or she is found to have been partially at - fault in causing the injury.

One need only compare that against the recent case of Boucher v. Wal - Mart Canada Corp., 2014 ONCA 419 (CanLII), summarized by this blog in the post Wal - Mart Rolls Back Award of Punitive Damages, which must now be considered the high - water mark for aggravated damages for bad behaviour in emplDamages, which must now be considered the high - water mark for aggravated damages for bad behaviour in empldamages for bad behaviour in employment.

At Grillo Barristers we have access to a compendium of damages awarded in such cases and can help analyze and compare your cases with historical settlement payouts based on the type of injury and type of accident.

Legal analytics provides lawyers and clients with a means to objectively assess the likely outcomes of different scenarios by performing a series of searches and adjusting search parameters to evaluate and compare likely outcomes, including variables like remedies and damages awarded.

Nijjar recently ran a report using a legal research tool and, in the last 10 years, a summary table for Alberta compared to Ontario for severe brain damage cases showed the largest award reported in Alberta was $ 1.74 million for future care costs, which takes up 90 per cent of all judgments.

One response to this problem is to note that those situations simply won't occur too often, and if they do, these results should not be viewed as controversial compared to the various cases in which courts have upheld punitive damages awards that constitute a far higher percentage of net wealth or value than what I've suggested under retributive dam - ages.

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