Punitive Damages in Financial Injury Cases, the Rand Report
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 138
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 138
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Orrin G. Hatch
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Published: 2000-12
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780756704773
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hearing held by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on the cost of punitive damage awards, which lately seem to be out of control. Witnesses: Stephen J. Carroll, senior economist, Rand Institute for Civil Justice, Santa Monica, CA; Thomas Campbell, a Representative in Congress from the State of California; Stephen Daniels, senior research fellow, American Bar Association, Chicago, IL; Theodore B. Olson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, Washington, DC; & Senators Orrin G. Hatch & Richard J. Durbin. Charts & tables.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Published: 1997*
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 111
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Erik Moller
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780833025364
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Stephen J. Carroll
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 14
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This publication contains the written statement of Stephen Carroll delivered on June 24, 1997, to the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate. The statement is based on a RAND Institute for Civil Justice study of punitive damages in financial injury cases. The author summarizes RAND estimates of the frequency and size of punitive damage awards in financial injury cases. He also presents estimates of what percentage of the financial injury punitive awards in the study's 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.
Author: Erik Moller
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780833025340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report provides the techincal 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 1985-1994.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 120
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 4
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Personal injury disputes--for example, those concerning asbestos or medical devices--have dominated the long-running debate over tort reform and punitive damages. However, prior ICJ studies established that almost half of all punitive damage awards were made in cases in which the damages were financial in nature, rather than personal. Moreover, these financial injury verdicts are far more likely to include an award of punitive damages. While punitive damages are awarded in less than 4 percent of all civil jury verdicts, there is a 1-in-7 chance of a punitive award in disputes arising from contractual or commercial relationships, including, for example, disputes stemming from insurance, or employment contracts or from unfair business practices.