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Originally Posted by Basanos
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Yeah, he did get off too easy
I don't know what this means, but they participated in the court case, they sure seem to think they were harmed by virtue of doing so
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He asked is the suffering = 1 billy = $1 billion
Man, my memory of my jury duty is really getting hazy because it was more than 10 years ago now, but I was on a civil case where the intangible cost of “pain and suffering” came up
If I recall, there is a way lawyers can try to use to quantify it. They take the loss of income from not being able to function at one’s job for a period of time due to like psychological distress, any mental health treatments they may have gotten as a result, basically they look for a base value that they can somehow quantify with a number
Then they multiply that base value by another quotient. I don’t remember what that other quotient was
So in the civil case I was in it was something like [missed_work] + [physical_therapy_cost] * x = pain and suffering (this was for a car accident)
But it’s not that lawyers are pulling a number out of their ass, they do make attempts to try to quantify it
Most likely this number got so large because it was multiplied by the number of families affected