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- Title
Juries and Unpredictability in Products Liability Damage Awards.
- Authors
Graddy, Elizabeth
- Abstract
The size and variability of jury damage awards in tort cases has been a contentious issue for over a decade. Nevertheless, there has been little empirical work addressing the relationship between the size of jury awards to products liability victims and their compensable losses. This paper examines this relationship using a sample of California cases. A compensatory model of damages based on plaintiff, injury, and case characteristics explains a large proportion of the variance in damage awards suggesting that juries rely heavily on monetary and non-monetary loss estimates in determining damages. The evidence argues against charges of unpredictability, and indicates undercompensation on average.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; UNITED States; JURY; COMPENSATION (Law); DAMAGES (Law)
- Publication
Law & Policy, 2001, Vol 23, Issue 1
- ISSN
0265-8240
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9930.00101