In 2003 the State of Texas decided that everything in Texas should be big except jury awards. In that year with oil prices ripening and campaign dollars flowing off the vines like fresh crushed grapes a constitutional amendment was passed that empowered the Texas legislature to cap the amount of pain and suffering for which a person could be compensated. The legislature acted and did capitate the amount a person, mostly Texans, could receive in non-economic damages.

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Texas verdict will be reduced due to caps on the suffering of the poor


Posted on Feb 18, 2009

In today’s case David Fitzgerald, 53 and a former maintenance worker will live life without arms, legs, hands, fingers, feet or toes and at 53 his life expectance of more than 20 years will provide him with $ per day for what he suffers with minute by minute, day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year and decade by decade; until that one final minute ticks off his clock and he’s finally dead and gone. Dallas-Star Telegram.


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