Litigation
Dec. 28, 2010
Jurors Less Sympathetic
Financially struggling jurors are less sympathetic to personal-injury litigants.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Beatrice Kaufman seemed an ideal personal-injury plaintiff. The 84-year-old widow was rendered a partial quadriplegic when she fell while boarding a public bus operated by the city of Santa Monica, breaking her neck.
She alleged the bus driver didn't give her time to find a seat before the bus pulled away from the curb. A security camera on the bus captured the September 2008 accident, and appea...
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