Sentences with phrase «potential jury award»

In today's environment, a single major employment dispute can result in the erosion of substantial assets because of legal fees and a potential jury award.

The argument that «actual and potential jury awards of noneconomic damages (such as pain and suffering) are a key factor (perhaps the most important factor) behind the unavailability and un-affordability of medical malpractice insurance in Florida» is unsupported.

Not exact matches

Mondi Corrugated Packaging product innovation manager Jan Blankiewicz says: «We are proud that two of our designs received acknowledgment from the international jury at the WorldStar Awards 2017 as they underline the potential of paper - based material in developing innovative packaging solutions.

Ivan Herrera, winner of last year's Jury's Choice Award at the TIFFxInstagram Shorts Festival, discusses the medium's infinite potential with music video director Nabil

Significantly, it was not even until 2006 that judges were asked by Sir Nicholas Serota (then chair of the jury) to disclose any potential conflict of interest and then only on the day the Prize was awarded.

If the determination places 20 % of the fault on the speeding driver, and 80 % of the fault on the driver running a red light, when the jury proceeds to calculate damages, the amount of potential damages awarded to the speeding driver will be reduced by 20 % because they are at fault for that amount of the accident.

The final portion of this opinion that a three - judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued today contains an interesting discussion of the potential for overlap between a jury's award of damages for emotional distress and what a jury might have awarded had it been advised (as it should have been but was not at the original trial) that an award of punitive damages in favor of the plaintiff was appropriate.

Yet the jury was so incensed over the company's blatant and heinous disregard for the safety of the public regarding the potential to develop ovarian cancer, they awarded the plaintiff $ 10 million in punitive damages for every year she lived — 62 years.

It quoted Campbell's guidelines: «(1) the degree of reprehensibility of the defendant's misconduct; (2) the disparity between the actual or potential harm suffered by the plaintiff and the punitive damages award; and (3) the difference between the punitive damages awarded by the jury and the civil penalties authorized in comparable cases.»

Critics of no - fault argue that dangerous drivers not paying for the damage they cause encourages excessive risky behavior, with only raised premiums and a higher risk rating as the potential consequence, and no jury awards or legal settlements.