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: It's (Barely) Legal$8-a-Day Award for Amputee Unfair
By Glen Ashman
New Jersey Law Journal
In an unusual, if not unprecedented, parsing of a medical malpractice verdict, a New Jersey appeals court held last week that a $100,000 pain and suffering award was too low because it amounted to $8 a day for the rest of the plaintiff's life. The Appellate Division ordered a new trial, finding the award "grossly insufficient and a miscarriage of justice," but left in place the liability verdict and $800,000 in economic damages. The plaintiff, who had seven surgeries, lost most of one leg due to gangrene.
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Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on August 26, 2008 (boomark / email).
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