As I mentioned in my February 17, 2013 post about Tennessee personal injury and Tennessee wrongful death court filings, the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Court has released statistics about the Tennessee’s justice system. Among the data produced is the amount of money awarded in tort trials for the year ended 2011-12.
The total amount of damages awarded by judges and juries in all personal injury and wrongful death trials in the state in the year ended June 30, 2012 was $128,312,921.
Damages of $1 to $99,999 were awarded in 158 of the 204 cases tried to judges in juries in year in which damages were actually awarded. (There were 520 trials in all – no damages were awarded in 316 of them. Damages of $100,000 to $999,999 were awarded in just 29 cases. Damages of $1,000,000 and more were awarded in 17 cases.
