There is no price that can be placed on the value of a life. Will $1.5 million end the suffering of two young girls who have lost their mother? Can $25 million return a young boy to the straight-A student he was before a mistake left him permanently brain damaged? Of course they can’t. But large jury awards can send a “loud message,” as one lawyer said last week.
Posted by Editor at October 15, 2003 10:19 AM