Kentucky juries seldom find doctors and hospitals negligent in court cases, and when they do, they don't often award large amounts for pain and suffering or punitive damages, a survey of jury verdicts shows. According to the survey data — collected by the Kentucky Trial Court Review, a legal newsletter, and analyzed by The Courier-Journal — health-care providers won three-fourths of the 357 medical cases tried in the state over the past six years. Among the 89 they lost, 37 resulted in damages for pain and suffering, or punitive damages, exceeding $250,000.
Posted by Editor at February 3, 2004 04:42 AM