Settlements in the United States

Verdicts and Settlements Legal Materials

The National Association of State Jury Verdict Publishers provides links to most state-wide verdict and settlement reporters.

You can search a broad collection of verdict reporters simultaneously on Lexis(VERDCT;ALLVER or search the database directory for individual states) or Westlaw(JV-ALL or xx-JV for an individual state). Lexis also offers an online treatise calledWhat’s It Worth that contains data on personal injury verdicts (2NDARY;WORTH), a database with news stories about verdicts, settlements and judicial decisions (MEGA;MGAVER) and a “Verdict & Settlement Analyzer” designed to tell you how cases similar to yours have turned out in the past. Westlaw has equivalent databases, in cluding a “Case Evaluator” template is designed to expedite Westlaw verdict research.

The Verdict Research Group (formerly JAS publications) publishes verdict and settlement reporters for several states including North and South Carolina, Connecticut, D.C., Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Rhode Island and Virginia. You can search for verdicts through the VRS web site once you register. VRS offers both subscription and pay-as-you-go pricing options.

Jury Verdict Publications produces a line of monthly newsletters reporting verdicts, including Medical Litigation Alert, The National Jury Verdict Review and Analysis, theNew England Jury Verdict Review and Analysis, and single-state equivalents for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida. The company offers a free verdict search, with a premium access option, as well as subscriber access, or you can hire JVRA to do an assisted search for you.

Big jury verdicts and settlements are reported in the back of the National Law Journaland in many other legal newspapers and magazines.

Additonal sources for jury verdict and settlement research are listed on Georgetown Law Library’s Jury Verdicts & Jury Instructions Research Guide page and the University of Washington’s Jury Verdicts, Settlements, Judgments, and Liens page.

Information on state-specific jury verdicts and settlements sources is included in entries for some of the individual states.

Settlements and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Where an agency agrees to award monetary or non-monetary benefits to an individual who agreed either to not file a formal complaint or to withdraw a formal complaint.

In Patent Damages Law

Note: for more information on patent damages law, click here.

This covers:

• Cases (admissibility, discoverability)
• Panduit standard for proving lost profits damages (absence of acceptable non-infringing substitutes, effect of prior settlements on multiple infringers)
• Reasonable royalty (relevancy of license negotiation during settlement)

See Also

Attorneys
Expert Witnesses

Settlements (Civil Procedure)

This section introduces, discusses and describes the basics of settlements. Then, cross references and a brief overview about Civil Procedurein relation to settlements is provided. Note that a list of bibliography resources and other aids appears at the end of this entry.