{"id":193,"date":"2017-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/do-juries-award-too-much-in-medical-malpractice-cases\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:08:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:08:54","slug":"do-juries-award-too-much-in-medical-malpractice-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/do-juries-award-too-much-in-medical-malpractice-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Juries Award Too Much in Medical Malpractice Cases?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"item-meta h3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/category\/medical-malpractice\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Medical malpractice<\/a> | January 20, 2017<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of negative political press these days about medical malpractice claims suggesting that juries are just handing out ridiculously high settlements. Do these arguments have merit?<\/p>\n<p>According to several decades of studies on the subject: no. Doctors are sympathetic defendants and tend to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2628507\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">win three out of every four cases<\/a> at trial. Even when a large award is given, the odds are good that the huge verdict that gets splashed across the papers will get whittled down during the appeals process and eventually settle for a much smaller sum.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/do-juries-award-too-much-in-medical-malpractice-cases\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Do Juries Award Too Much in Medical Malpractice Cases?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical malpractice | January 20, 2017 There\u2019s a lot of negative political press these days about medical malpractice claims suggesting that juries are just handing out ridiculously high settlements. Do these arguments have merit? According to several decades of studies on the subject: no. Doctors are sympathetic defendants and tend to win three out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-malpractice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Do juries award too much in medical malpractice cases?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There&#039;s a lot of negative political press these days about medical malpractice claims suggesting that juries are just ... 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