Andrew F. Popper, a law professor at American University, has written an article entitled "In Defense of Deterrence." Here is an abstract of the article: The civil justice system deters misconduct. It generates far-reaching and positive market effects beyond victim compensation and recovery. Civil judgments, settlements, the potential for…
The Cross-Examination Blog has published a helpful checklist on avoiding errors in preparing for and conducting cross-examinations that will be helpful to trial lawyers handling tort cases. The blog is written by Ronald Clark, the author of the Cross-Examination Handbook, which I reviewed last year. Here is the review. Ronald…
What to know more about the explosion of personal injury and wrongful death jury verdicts in Tennessee? A report released by the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts revealed that the following Tennessee counties did not award one penny in damages in any tort case for the year ended June…
There were ten jury and non-jury awards of $1,000,000 or more in Tennessee tort cases in the year ending on June 30, 2011. The number of million dollar verdicts was exactly the same as it was ten years earlier, a year when there were 50% more trials. These are the…
Tennessee jury verdicts were down substantially in 2010-11, according to data released by the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts. Total damages awarded in tort cases in state court were only $32,051,326, down by a little over 60% from a year earlier, when the total damages awarded was over $91,000,000.…
The number of jury trials in Tennessee tort cases continues to decline, according to data released by the Tennessee Adminstrative Office of the Courts. In the one year period ending June 30, 2011, there were only 222 jury trials in tort cases in Tennessee state courts. Ten years ago, the…
New data out from the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts puts data behind what those of us who practice tort law knew: tort filings are down in Tennessee. The AOC’s Annual Statistical Report shows that tort filings for the one year period ending June 30, 2011 were 10,576. Ten…
We all know that the services provided by homemakers have a substantial value, but this article from Vestopedia puts some numbers on it. The author notes that " The life of a homemaker is one that includes an endless amount of demands and to-dos. Depending on the size of the…
The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected an effort by the Arkansas Legislature to define who is permitted to give testimony as an expert witness in a medical malpractice case. Broussard’s medical malpractice case was dismissed on summary judgment after her expert witness was excluded under Arkansas Code Annotated section 16-114-206 (Repl.…
It takes a particular type of jerk to project a loogie onto a hamburger that is being served to another person. (I guess you would never do that to a hamburger you intended to eat yourself.) And there is a relatively small subset of jerks who would do this…