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Determining Damages: the Psychology of Jury Awards.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JUN-03
Format: Online - approximately 832 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Determining Damages: the Psychology of Jury Awards.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Edie Greene Brian H. Bornstein American Psychological Association www.apa.org 238 pp., $39.95

There is something uncharitable about critics who heap scorn on jurors, particularly jurors charged with translating idiosyncratic and often immeasurable injuries into dollars-and-cents damage awards. Such jurors, after all, face a daunting series of tasks for which they possess little background and receive scant guidance.

How, for example, can a layperson accurately determine the sorts of rehabilitative services an industrial-accident victim will need in 10 years and what those services might cost? What are the future earnings of a bright high school student, disabled in a car crash, who has not yet chosen a career? How large an award would constitute fair compensation for the pain and suffering of losing an...

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