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Average Jury Verdict in Florida

Florida Personal Injury Settlement Statistics According to a not-so-recently published Jury Verdict Research study, the average verdict in a personal injury lawsuit in Florida is $1,732,150. Huge and almost invariably uncollectable verdicts, because of caps on a defendant’s ability to pay, and overturned verdicts inflate the average to a number…

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Tennessee Verdicts

As reported in the Tennessean today, Tennessee juries last year awarded a grand total of $92 million, according to the 2009-10 Annual Report of the Tennessee Judiciary. The average jury verdict was $400,359 last year. Apparently, this is in civil jury cases altogether. It would have been helpful to breakup…

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Certificate of Merit Requirements in Malpractice Cases

The Minnesota Court of Appeals decided an interesting medical malpractice case addressing the bar plaintiffs’ malpractice lawyers must clear when presenting a certificate of merit that will survive summary judgment. The gist of this case is that the plaintiff filed a lawsuit against a few neurologists for failing to diagnose…

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