Injured in a rear-end car accident? Learn common causes, injuries, and how a lawyer can help you recover maximum compensation.
Alabama is the only state in the United States that only allows punitive damages in death cases. In every other state, compensatory and punitive damages are allowed. In other words, if an RN is killed by a drunk driver and they have a lifetime earning expectancy of over a million dollars, juries in other states can consider that in making an award to the family, but not in Alabama.
In Alabama death cases, circuit court judges are directed to consider reducing the judgment in a procedure known as remittitur, but not allowed to increase a jury award through additur.
It is somewhat satisfying to see that our argument about how inflation has impacted fixed sums and that the economic impact of the same amount ten years ago would be diminished through inflation. The plaintiff had to present an expert witness on inflation and the consumer price index to persuade circuit court to award ten million dollars as opposed to the old seven-million-dollar rule of thumb award that Alabama had followed for over ten years. Reach out to a personal injury lawyer.
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