| Punitive Damages in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts Contributor(s): Moller, Erik (Author), Pace, Nicholas M. (Author), Carroll, Stephen J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0833025368 ISBN-13: 9780833025364 Publisher: RAND Corporation OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1997 Annotation: This report is the executive summary of an Institute for Civil Justice analysis of trends and patterns in punitive damage awards in financial injury cases in selected jurisdictions during the period 1985 to 1994. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Reference |
| Dewey: 346.730 |
| LCCN: 97196864 |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 8.61" W x 10.98" (0.64 lbs) 84 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This report provides the technical details of an Institute for Civil Justice analysis of trends and patterns in punitive damage awards in financial injury cases in selected jurisdictions during the period 1985 through 1994. The jurisdictions include all state trial courts of general jurisdiction in the states of California and New York; Cook County, Illinois (Chicago); the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area; and Harris County, Texas (Houston). These data are supplemented by information obtained from the Administrative Office of the Alabama Courts for verdicts reached in that state's trial courts of general jurisdiction during the period 1992 to 1997. The study also estimates what percentage of the financial injury punitive awards in the database would have been affected by caps of various sizes and how the caps would have affected the total amount of punitive damages awarded in such cases. |