HOW FAIR IS THIS?

The top jury verdict in Virginia in the last 25 years was $212 million. It was awarded b federal jury in Richmond to a Vietnam veteran who suffered brain damage after a Botox injection. The award was $12 million for compensatory damages and $200 million for punitive damages. Compensatory damages are to help what can be helped, fix what can be fixed and to make up for what can not be fixed or helped. Compensatory damages include past, present, and future medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering. Punitive damages are to publish the wrongdoer for what he has done and to make an example of him so that others are reluctant to do the same thing. The jury listened to all the evidence, deliberated, and decided that what was fair for him what was done to him. HOW FAIR IS THIS? In spite of the jury's decision, the judge reduce the verdict to $12.35 million. Yes, the judge can do that. In this case, the judge was required by law to reduce the verdict because the Virginia legislature put a cap of $350,000 on punitive damages.

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