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Cheney, Edwards Spar Over Medical Liability Issue During VP Debate

National News • October 6, 2004
Around and around they went. For some 90 minutes, Vice President Dick Cheney and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards debated and most often, disagreed on the issues, during the first and only Vice ...

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Subject: Reducing Punitive Damage Awards

Posted On: October 8, 2004, 4:52 pm CDT
Posted By: craig
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My theory is that punitive damage awards are meant to punish the defendant rather than to reward the plaintiff. As such, punitive damages should be paid to the jurisdiction in which the case is tried. Contingency fee lawyers should get paid as a percentage of the monetary damage award settlements that they win. The entire punitive award should go to the jurisdiction.

With respect to class action suits, the legal fees should be capped at percentage of the award given to any single member of the class. If the cap is 5x the amount of a single member, then if there are 95 members of the class, the lawyers' fees would be capped at 5%.
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RE: Reducing Punitive Damage Awards Matt
Oct 11, 2004, 9:30 am
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The REAL problem Kathy
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