Court awards damages to disabled child for having been born

Shared Outrage and Erratic Awards: The Psychology of Punitive Damages

An experimental study of punitive damage awards in personal injury cases was conducted, using jury-eligible respondents. There was substantial consensus on judgments of the outrageousness of a defendant’s actions and of the appropriate severity of punishment. Judgments of dollar awards made by individuals and synthetic juries were much more erratic. These results are familiar characteristics of...

An Exploration of "Non-economic" Damages in Civil Jury Awards

Shifting the Fat-Tailed Distribution of Blockbuster Punitive Damages Awards

The distribution of blockbuster punitive damages awards has fat tails similar to the distributions of losses from natural disasters. Extremely large awards occur more often and are more difficult to predict than if blockbuster awards were distributed normally. The size and predictability of awards are important factors in the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions on punitive damages. This article exam...

Patients' attitudes toward having been forcibly medicated.

Forced antipsychotic medication procedures are generally perceived to be clinically necessary options, albelt violations of individuals' bodies and autonomy. Previous studies have explored forcibly medicated patients' attitudes concerning these procedures, but as patients were interviewed while still in the hospital, this may have affected their responses. We interviewed consecutively forcibly ...

Optimal damages with court delay and heterogenous time preferences

Vereeck and Mühl (2000) distinguish four periods within the waiting time between conflict and court decision: the negotiation time between parties; the procedural time to prepare the trial; the waiting time before the actual start of the trial; and the time of the trial itself. They argue that while data on court delay often include the last three periods, only the third can be considered as ge...