You have to give severe damage and strong liability because doctors and insurance companies put up a big fight.

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You tell me what it's worth to an individual to have a (wrong) leg cut off. Look at a mother who can't have a child… or a child born with horrible brain damage. You say, 'Well they're entitled to their loss of income but that's all.' Their quality of life has been destroyed, but they are limited what they can recover.

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All you ever hear about are cases where juries award $3 million, (but) those are very few and far between. I have been involved in this for over 20 years, and juries are very difficult to persuade to do anything other than what the evidence shows. They are not in the back room looking to give people a blank check.

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