June Miss. Jury Verdict Reporter Covers Eight Verdicts from 2011
The June issue of the Mississippi Jury Verdict Reporter was emailed earlier this week. This edition includes 8 jury verdicts from 2011.
Four of the eight verdicts were defense verdicts. One of the defense verdicts was my recent losing effort in a medical malpractice trial in federal court in Aberdeen.
Of the four plaintiff verdicts, only one was a personal injury case. That was the $1 million Hinds County med-mal verdict that I reported in this post.
The other 3 plaintiff verdicts were:
- the $1.17 Yazoo County shareholder dispute reported in this post;
- a $212,900 federal court verdict in a Katrina negligent misrepresentation case; and
- an $80,000 Hinds County verdict in a nuisance case.
Two of the defense verdict were in personal injury cases. So to recap, there were 3 personal injury jury verdicts reported and 2 of those 3 were defense verdict.
Perhaps someone could forward this information to the Clarion-Ledger and Gannett, who want to pretend like it's 1999.
Here is my post on the May 2011 edition of MJVR.
Newspapers everywhere don't write much on civil litigation (I don't understand as people are interested, lay or otherwise), but they just don't. And when they do, it usually only about large verdicts. Which tends to perpetuate the myth that only large verdicts are returned. Which is the exception rather than the rule. Public perception is precisely the opposite.