Dealing with damages in death cases is challenging. There is often aN unspoken feeling on the part of jurors that money won’t bring a deceased back or there is something greedy about asking for money for a dead person. Trying to paint the picture of who the deceased was and reimbursing in money can be difficult. The following is more of an outline of ideas than an outline to question from. It is intended for a close family friend, not…
Damages and death cases are often some of the more difficult types of losses we try to juries. We start with the problem of existing bias in most jurors about the subject of death and damages. People often feel that “money won’t bring them back,” or “it’s wrong for someone to get rich over the death of a loved one,” and “time heals all wounds.” Furthermore, it is difficult to put into words ideas that resonate with the idea of…
This past week my partners and another friend have been preparing for wrongful death trials. I was asked to contribute some thoughts. Since I’ve collected a few ideas I thought I would share them even though they are not in any particular organized sequence. Some years back I copied an article entitled “A Portrait of a Mother” and what follows are some excerpts from that article. I regret that I didn’t keep the source or the author or I would…