Nonphysical Injury Structured Settlements: Improved Outcomes For All Parties

When civil jurors get angry enough, they exercise the only power available to them when tasked with the responsibility of choosing how best to right a perceived wrong: They award dollars. Lots and lots of dollars. And if several high profile celebrity court cases are any indication, they have really had it with dishonorable, salacious tortfeasors invading someone else’s privacy. In Erin Andrews v. Nashville Marriott et al., a Tennessee jury decided the unconscionable actions of an admitted stalker and the complicit negligence of the enabling hotel staff sufficiently violated the complainant’s right to privacy and caused her undue emotional distress among other damages.