Boyle v. Christensen’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 1 state decisions

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1. “Ladies and gentlemen, they want a lot of money for this. A lot of money. What's been written on the board is called a per diem analysis. . . . How many days has it been since the accident? How many days for the rest of his life. And how much per day is that worth? That's what's been done here. That's how we get verdicts like in the McDonald's case with a cup of coffee.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Boyle v. Christensen

2. “a significant permanent injury to a person that substantially changes that person's lifestyle and includes the following: (i) a partial or complete paralysis of one or more of the extremities; (ii) significant disfigurement; or (iii) incapability of the person of performing the types of jobs the person performed before the injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Boyle v. Christensen

3. “refused to consider arguments of plain error raised for the first time in an appellant's reply brief, even if the plain error argument is in response to a dispute over preservation raised for the first time in the appellee's brief.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2015 UT App 174 - Marcroft v. Labor Commission