Kentucky's premier (and one of the most complete services in the nation) jury verdict reporter - Kentucky Trial Court Review - is posting each issue's cover page, table of contents (brief summary of the jury trials in a short sentence) and a verdict digest or two at its web site. http://www.juryverdicts.net/kentuckytrial.htm.
If you try cases in Kentucky, then you should already be getting this product each month which has complete digests of the case, litigants, lawyers, issues, court, judge, facts, and the verdict for every state and federal civil jury trial in the Commonwealth.
Better yet, all of the cases are analyzed each year in the "Year in Review" with incredible summaries of the data. The "injury" multipliers are probably the single most useful settlement tool you can buy. Why? Nine years (and broken down yearly, too) of pain and suffering multipliers and impairment multipliers for each general category of injury in relation to the medicals provides a sufficient numerical base to project the values of the cases rather than the anecdotal verdict or two that each side can use to pump up or shoot down the value of a case. The large number of verdicts provides a strong statistical base in years, venues, and number of verdicts to weed out the highs and lows and provide the averages. An actual "mean" might be useful in the future (mid point between the high and the low rather than the average).
The price is right, and well-worth the investment. Back issues of the "Year in Review" may still be available, and some of the issues are now in Adobe PDF format (with its expanded search capabilities).
Some of our readers may remember the running list I used to maintain a few years back of the biggest verdicts for the year. Unfortunately, that took too much time. Maybe the KTCR will be doing this independently, and if so, we will link to it. It's always an interesting read on who's getting the big verdicts.
If this whets your appetite, then check the following links for subscribing to the monthly editions and obtaining the annual reviews:
- The 2006 Year in Review
- The 9-2007 Issue
- About the Kentucky Trial Court Review
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