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Caps on damages: adding injury to injury
Robert S. Peck
State laws limiting the damages that juries can award may deny
plaintiffs the compensation they need to cover medical expenses
and other injury-related costs. And defendants are less likely
to change their irresponsible practices if the price they pay
for wrongdoing is negligible. Plaintiff attorneys can combat
the laws with constitutional challenges.
What good will money do?
Richard D. Lawrence
One of your most important jobs as a plaintiff attorney is
to convince jurors that although a monetary award cannot take
away your clients suffering or replace what was lost, it will
help ensure the quality of the persons life.
Draw a map through the desert
Bryant L. Welch
Depression isnt just the blues. It is a desperate trudge across
unforgiving terrain, made more arduous by anguish and exhaustion.
Jurors who understand your clients depression will be more inclined
to award damages for his or her intangible, and often dismissed,
suffering.
When a child is your client
Don C. Keenan
A young, catastrophically injured plaintiff will not have a
"normal" childhood, but he or she can live a good life given
the right resources. To secure justice, have the jury consider
the youngsters injuries—and potential—from the childs
perspective.
Insurance write-offs and the collateral
source rule
Douglas Rallo
Some courts allow plaintiffs to recover the full billed amount
of their medical expenses, even if part of the bill has been
written off under an agreement between the health care provider
and the plaintiffs insurer. Learn the case law and the strategies
to use in this area of litigation.
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Features
ATLA officers for 2002-2003
ATLAs new officers introduce themselves and their goals for
the coming year.
One year later
The terrorist attacks last September shook the nation. Three
attorneys tell how that day and its aftermath affected their
lives and the practice of law.
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Worker too old to receive benefits cannot
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shows
Parent cannot sign away childs rights,
Colorado court rules
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