Word: plaintiffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stars of the "negligence bar" are courtroom impresarios who seek whopping damages in exchange for a fat cut of the plaintiff's proceeds. Those stars are shining so brightly that jury awards for serious personal injuries are rising by 14% a year and beleaguered insurance companies are crying foul-appealing out-of-court to the public...
...page monograph from Milwaukee's Defense Research Institute, which represents 225 companies and 3,800 defense lawyers. Chief target of the D.R.I, is the ad damnum (damages) clause that puts a specific price tag on the injury at issue. Strictly speaking, the dollar amount a plaintiff is claiming is not supposed to sway juries empaneled to determine actual damages based on trial evidence. But, charges the institute, negligence lawyers are using the ad damnum clause for just that purpose...
...members and naturally deferred to the experience of the Acting Senior Fellow. Only William Marbury could approach Coolidge's longevity, and although he and Coolidge comprised the Corporation's Special Committee to study the Fury Case, he seems to have followed his colleague's lead. A descendant of the plaintiff in Marbury v. Madison (1803), Marbury was a Baltimore lawyer and personal friend of Alger Hiss. In fact, one reason for his unsureness in the Furry case was a disappointment with the outcome of Hiss's trial and a belief that the convicted perjurer had lied even to his closest...
...courts to hold that line. Though his fascinating and well-documented article does not disclose it, he is general counsel of American Airlines.* He is understandably fretful and concerned about two recent state court decisions in Oregon and Washington, flatly holding that airway noise is compensable even though the plaintiff's airspace is not violated...
Because annoyance is subjective, says Manhattan Lawyer George A. Spater in the Michigan Law Review, courts usually insist on tangible harm before they do anything about noise. Typically, the plaintiff recovers only if noise decreases the value of his property. Recovery for personal injury is rare, says Spater; recovery because of mere sensitivity to noise is impossible...