In 2003, more than three quarters of all American obstetricians were sued at least once, with
a median award of $ 2.3 million for medical negligence in childbirth.
Leg injuries made up only 7 % of the verdicts but led to
a median award of $ 500,000.
Not exact matches
After reviewing the revised peer group director compensation data in June 2009, the committee 1) set pay for the new non-executive Chairman
of the Board, 2) increased the value
of the annual equity
award from $ 145,000 to $ 175,000, since the previous level
of compensation was deemed below the market
median, and 3) changed the equity grant vehicle from 100 % restricted stock units (RSUs) to 50 % RSUs and 50 % outperformance stock units (OSUs) in order to more closely align with the equity package that Intel executives receive.
The HRC also considered each
of the named executive's base salary and annual incentive compensation target in connection with the value
of the Performance Share
awards to set total fixed and target variable compensation for the named executives between the estimated
median and 75th percentile
of the Labor Market Peer Group.
After the peer group shrank due to market consolidation and the Company found itself below the
median of the partial group, the committee exercised its discretion to permit
awards to be released as if the
median target had been met.
In 2002 the
median maximum grant
of shares that a FTSE 100 lead executive could be
awarded was 100 per cent
of salary.
In addition, investigators with citations above the
median (more than 24 citations) at the time
of application were 3.6 percentage points (P <.001) more likely to receive an R01
award (14).
Scholarships can be
awarded to students with household incomes equal or less than 150 %
of the
median household income and that were zoned to attend a failing public school the previous semester, although previous public school attendance is not required.
In 2015, the last time Department
of Education gave the Gold Ribbon to middle and high schools, the
median poverty indicator for the schools that actually received the
award was 26 %.
Changes: We have revised § § 668.412 to specify that an institution may not include on the disclosure template information about completion or withdrawal rates, the number
of individuals enrolled in the program during the most recently completed
award year, loan repayment rates, placement rates, the number
of individuals enrolled in the program who received title IV loans or private loans for enrollment in the program,
median loan debt, mean or
median earnings, program cohort default rates, or the program's most recent D / E rates if that information is based on fewer than 10 students.
Thus, although the Service undoubtedly has utility, and Westlaw is working to eliminate duplicates and adjust damages for inflation, I consider the Service's data for things like the number
of awards, and average and
median damages
awards to be unreliable at this time.
The
median total
award in 2003 - 2013 was $ 29,365 — almost half
of the average
award.
The
median total
award in the 1973 - 83 period was $ 12,671, which is less than half
of the average damages
award of $ 27,464.
The
median judgment
awarded for contracts cases is $ 35,000 compensatory and $ 68,000 punitively as cited by the Bureau
of Justice Statistics study, revised in 2009.
The number
of personal injury filings are falling, not rising, according to sober government data,
median awards are falling, and plaintiffs are taking it on the chin, in everything from medical malpractice to products liabilty lawsuits.»
Plaintiffs who prevailed in tort trials concluded in 2002 - 2003 received an estimated
median damage
award of $ 201,000.
Based on data from Lex Machina's 2015 Patent Year in Review, the
median damages
award for patent cases is about $ 1.5 million, and approximately 90 %
of awards are less than $ 50 million.
As the report notes, the
median damages
awarded to patent trolls tripled that
of practicing entities over the last four years.