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Maximizing Damages for Mental Suffering

What You Will Learn

  • Overcome resistance to recovery for “emotional distress.”
  • Uncover the human stories that bring your client’s experience alive.
  • Prove mental suffering through lay witnesses, treating providers, and illustrations
  • Anticipate and defeat the “malingering plaintiff” and other defenses.
  • Overcome motions for remittitur with evidence of human harms and losses.

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What You Will Learn

  • Overcome resistance to recovery for “emotional distress.”
  • Uncover the human stories that bring your client’s experience alive.
  • Prove mental suffering through lay witnesses, treating providers, and illustrations
  • Anticipate and defeat the “malingering plaintiff” and other defenses.
  • Overcome motions for remittitur with evidence of human harms and losses.

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Price

$79 for Association Member
$99 for Non-Member

75 minutes
Date Published

August 10, 2022

Publisher

Washington State Association for Justice

Subjects

Damages

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Summary

Mental suffering is the most serious of all injuries because we filter our experience of life through our minds. How much worse is life when we are haunted by grief, fear, anxiety, humiliation, and despair? The Courts direct jurors to be guided by their own view of the value of these human losses based on the evidence before them. But are we lawyers doing enough to present the evidence jurors need to evaluate and value these harms and losses? 

Beth Bloom will cover the array of non-economic damages available to plaintiffs, how to engage jurors in valuing human harms, and how to effectively present evidence of mental suffering at trial and settlement.  Her presentation includes how to overcome common defenses to claims for mental suffering such as malingering and pre-existing conditions.

SWOD-18087

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Presenters

Beth Bloom

Beth Bloom has dedicated her career to restoring justice for employees. Ms. Bloom represents employees fired because of who... Read More

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Program Titles and Supporting Materials

This program contains the following components:

Media Files
Replay of Maximizing Damages for Mental Suffering
Downloadable Files
Maximizing Damages for Mental Suffering - Materials
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Credit

If applicable, you may obtain credit in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously for this program (see pending/approved list below). If electing credit for this program, registrants in jurisdictions not listed below will receive a Certificate of Completion that may or may not meet credit requirements in other jurisdictions. Where applicable, credit will be only awarded to a paid registrant completing all the requirements of the program as determined by the selected accreditation authority.

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How to Attend

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