Juries

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Capping Non-Economic Awards in Medical Malpractice Trials: California Jury Verdicts Under MICRA — Dec 17, 2004

A model for limits on trial awards and attorneys’ fees in medical malpractice cases is the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA), a law enacted in California in 1975 in the hope of controlling soaring medical malpractice insurance premiums and ensuring the continuing availability of malpractice insurance. MICRA caps awards for non-economic losses at $250,000 and limits plaintiffs’ attorney fees. The authors examine…

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Forty Years of Civil Jury Verdicts — Dec 31, 2003

Past studies on civil juries have been hampered by lack of data on verdicts spanning a sufficiently long period. Average jury awards tend to be highly variable from year to year, making it difficult to distinguish trends over relatively short periods of time. The authors use the longest time series of data on jury verdicts ever assembled: 40 years of data on tort cases in San Francisco County, CA and Cook County, IL collected by the RAND…

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Private Information, Self-Serving Biases, and Optimal Settlement Mechanisms: Theory and Evidence — Dec 31, 2002

The law and economics literature on suit and settlement has tended to focus on two alternative conceptual models.

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Goal Conflict in Juror Assessments of Compensatory and Punitive Damages — Dec 31, 1998

Recent tort reform debates have been hindered by a lack of knowledge of how jurors assess damages. Two studies investigated whether jurors are able to appropriately compartmentalize compensatory and punitive damages.

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Punitive Damages in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts — Jan 1, 1997

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.

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Punitive Damages in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts: Executive Summary — Jan 1, 1997

This report is the executive summary 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.

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Explaining Variation in Personal Injury Jury Awards — Dec 31, 1996

Studies of civil jury verdicts have become a prominent part of the research agenda regarding the civil justice system.

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Punitive Damages and Financial Injury Jury Verdict — Dec 31, 1996

This publication contains the written statement of Stephen Carroll delivered on June 24, 1997, to the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate.

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Punitive Damage Awards in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts — Dec 31, 1996

To provide an empirical basis for the ongoing debate about punitive damages, the authors drew on the ICJ's jury verdict database to conduct the first close analysis of trends and patterns in punitive awards for financial injuries.

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Differential Treatment of Corporate Defendants by Juries: An Examination of the "Deep-Pockets" Hypothesis — Dec 31, 1996

Evidence that juries treat corporate defendants less favorably than individual defendants is often cited in support of the widely held view that juries are biased against wealthy "deep-pocket" defendants.

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Trends in Civil Jury Verdicts Since 1985 — Dec 31, 1995

This report describes all civil jury verdicts reached from 1985 to 1994 in the state courts of general jurisdiction in 15 jurisdictions across the nation and identifies trends in these verdicts.

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Trends in Civil Jury Verdicts: New Data from 15 Jurisdictions — Dec 31, 1995

Makes an empirical contribution to the policy debate over tort reform.

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Improving Jury Comprehension in Criminal and Civil Trials — Dec 31, 1994

This publication contains the written statement of Robert MacCoun submitted on July 27, 1995, to the Judiciary Committee of the California State Senate.

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Inside the Black Box: What Empirical Research Tells Us about Decisionmaking by Civil Juries — Dec 31, 1993

This article discusses the potential contribution to the policymaking process of systematic empirical research on the behavior of civil juries.

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Is There a Deep-Pocket Bias in the Tort System? The Concern over Biases Against Deep-Pocket Defendants — Dec 31, 1992

There is a wide-spread perception that America's tort system is biased against so-called deep-pocket defendants. This paper summarizes what we know and don't know about deep-pocket biases.

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Getting Inside the Black Box: Toward A Better Understanding of Civil Jury Behavior — Dec 31, 1986

Advocates the use of systematic empirical research on civil jury behavior as an important tool in the policymaking process. The author discusses the methods that have been used for studying jury behavior,...

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Opening the Black Box of Civil Jury Behavior: A Summary of Research Results, 1987 — Dec 31, 1986

Drawing on social and cognitive psychology and on criminal jury research, Robert MacCoun outlines approaches that can provide data essential to legislative and judicial policymakers who seek to understand how civil juries arrive at decisions.

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A Summary of Research Results: Trends and Patterns in Civil Jury Verdicts — Dec 31, 1985

This paper draws on the author's analysis of civil jury verdicts rendered between 1960 and 1979 in Cook County, Illinois, and San Francisco, California.

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Changes in the tort system: helping inform the policy debate — Dec 31, 1985

This paper is extracted from the Director's Report in the Institute for Civil Justice's (ICJ) Report on the First Six Program Years, April 1980-March 1986. It reviews findings of the ICJ's research on the civil justice system regarding (1) civil jury...

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Comparative Negligence and Jury Behavior — Dec 31, 1984

Examines the effect of the comparative negligence law with respect to the increase in awards to plaintiffs who take their case to trial.

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Capping Non-Economic Awards in Medical Malpractice Trials: California Jury Verdicts Under MICRA — Dec 17, 2004

Forty Years of Civil Jury Verdicts — Dec 31, 2003

Private Information, Self-Serving Biases, and Optimal Settlement Mechanisms: Theory and Evidence — Dec 31, 2002

Goal Conflict in Juror Assessments of Compensatory and Punitive Damages — Dec 31, 1998

Punitive Damages in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts — Jan 1, 1997

Punitive Damages in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts: Executive Summary — Jan 1, 1997

Explaining Variation in Personal Injury Jury Awards — Dec 31, 1996

Punitive Damages and Financial Injury Jury Verdict — Dec 31, 1996

Punitive Damage Awards in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts — Dec 31, 1996

Differential Treatment of Corporate Defendants by Juries: An Examination of the "Deep-Pockets" Hypothesis — Dec 31, 1996

Trends in Civil Jury Verdicts Since 1985 — Dec 31, 1995

Trends in Civil Jury Verdicts: New Data from 15 Jurisdictions — Dec 31, 1995

Improving Jury Comprehension in Criminal and Civil Trials — Dec 31, 1994

Inside the Black Box: What Empirical Research Tells Us about Decisionmaking by Civil Juries — Dec 31, 1993

Is There a Deep-Pocket Bias in the Tort System? The Concern over Biases Against Deep-Pocket Defendants — Dec 31, 1992

Getting Inside the Black Box: Toward A Better Understanding of Civil Jury Behavior — Dec 31, 1986

Opening the Black Box of Civil Jury Behavior: A Summary of Research Results, 1987 — Dec 31, 1986

A Summary of Research Results: Trends and Patterns in Civil Jury Verdicts — Dec 31, 1985

Changes in the tort system: helping inform the policy debate — Dec 31, 1985

Comparative Negligence and Jury Behavior — Dec 31, 1984

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Capping Non-Economic Awards in Medical Malpractice Trials: California Jury Verdicts Under MICRA — Dec 17, 2004

Forty Years of Civil Jury Verdicts — Dec 31, 2003

Private Information, Self-Serving Biases, and Optimal Settlement Mechanisms: Theory and Evidence — Dec 31, 2002

Goal Conflict in Juror Assessments of Compensatory and Punitive Damages — Dec 31, 1998

Punitive Damages in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts — Jan 1, 1997

Punitive Damages in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts: Executive Summary — Jan 1, 1997

Explaining Variation in Personal Injury Jury Awards — Dec 31, 1996

Punitive Damages and Financial Injury Jury Verdict — Dec 31, 1996

Punitive Damage Awards in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts — Dec 31, 1996

Differential Treatment of Corporate Defendants by Juries: An Examination of the "Deep-Pockets" Hypothesis — Dec 31, 1996

Trends in Civil Jury Verdicts Since 1985 — Dec 31, 1995

Trends in Civil Jury Verdicts: New Data from 15 Jurisdictions — Dec 31, 1995

Improving Jury Comprehension in Criminal and Civil Trials — Dec 31, 1994

Inside the Black Box: What Empirical Research Tells Us about Decisionmaking by Civil Juries — Dec 31, 1993

Is There a Deep-Pocket Bias in the Tort System? The Concern over Biases Against Deep-Pocket Defendants — Dec 31, 1992

Getting Inside the Black Box: Toward A Better Understanding of Civil Jury Behavior — Dec 31, 1986

Opening the Black Box of Civil Jury Behavior: A Summary of Research Results, 1987 — Dec 31, 1986

A Summary of Research Results: Trends and Patterns in Civil Jury Verdicts — Dec 31, 1985

Changes in the tort system: helping inform the policy debate — Dec 31, 1985

Comparative Negligence and Jury Behavior — Dec 31, 1984

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