Before this Act became law, some regarded Mississippi as a haven for products - liability plaintiffs who were
seeking large damage awards.
Not exact matches
Madsen points out that there would have been a
large damages award and, perhaps more importantly, Packers Plus wasn't just pursuing the service companies — Harvest Oil is an exploration and production company and Packers was
seeking disgorgement of their profits for all of the increased hydrocarbon recovery that Harvest had enjoyed as a result of using the technology.
This is not to say I think the jury should have
awarded anything above the minimum after finding liability, but it is to say the jury was free to
award that amount and even a more without review, especially given the vastly
larger number of works for which
damages were not
sought.»