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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
Being pissed is justifiable. $253 million in this case isn't.
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Originally Posted by thatoneguy
This woman got $253.4 million because her husband died, so is that the cost of his life?
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Originally Posted by tspikes51
$254.3 million??? That's a shitload of money for a single person to be awarded.
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Originally Posted by ngdawg
The seven-man, five-woman jury awarded $450,000 in economic damages for Robert Ernst’s lost pay, $24 million for mental anguish and loss of companionship and $229 million in punitive damages.
But the punitive damage amount is likely to be reduced since state law caps punitive damages at twice the amount of economic damages — lost pay — and up to $750,000 on top of non-economic damages, which are comprised of mental anguish and loss of companionship.
That would give Ernst a maximum of $1.65 million in possible punitive damages, meaning her total damage award could not exceed $26.1 million.
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It is only polite to read the whole article before posting.
Anyway, this lawsuit scares me a little bit, because I'm majoring in pharmacy, but lately it seems that pharmaceutical companies are turning into "the bad guys". I've even thought about opening up my own pharmacy eventually, when I finish my degree, but things like this make me want to reconsider. I'm not sure exactly why this is though, but I just get some strange feeling that there's going to be some sort of internal revolution in the pharmaceutical industry, and I don't want to get caught up in the middle of it. I certainly don't intend to be part of any of the money-hungry corruption though; I could not live with myself.