NJ PERSONAL INJURY BLOG ARTICLES
Court to Decide Increase in Jury Award
The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to look
at how far personal injury lawyers can go in
their closing statements to a jury. At issue
in the case of
Risko
v Thompson Muller automotive group t/a Hammonton
Chrysler Jeep Dodge, A-27-10, is whether
a lawyer stepped
over the boundaries in equating a decedent
suffering with torture and in telling the jury
that they would be ignoring the law if they
had an issue with a million-dollar case. The
jury awarded $540,000 for decedent pain-and-suffering
and 1.2 1 million for her family's loss of her
services and companionship. About eight weeks,
later the trial
judge set aside the award because of
a lawyer's comments including his suggestion
that jurors tell the judge if any of them expressed
the predilection against awarding more than
$1 million.
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- Tort Claims Act, Municipal Government Responsibility for Police Actions in an Automobile Accident
- Court to Decide Increase in Jury Award
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