Las Vegas Jurors, Judge Show Their Stupidity Again

When t comes to civil trials in Clark County (Las Vegas), we must have the stupidest jurors in the United States.  Once again, the Jerry Springer type jurors were at it again.
From the LVRJ: One of the state’s leading insurers, Health Plan of Nevada, “acted in bad faith regarding its obligation to provide insurance coverage” to patients, a Clark County jury found Thursday, awarding a total of $24 million to three people, two of whom contracted hepatitis C at a facility operated by Dr. Dipak Desai, the central figure in the 2008 outbreak of the disease.
Robert Eglet, attorney for two of the plaintiffs, said he expects to ask for an additional $1 billion in punitive damages Friday. If granted, that would be the largest such award in Nevada history, he said.
A $350,000 Nevada malpractice liability cap for doctors doesn’t apply to insurance companies.
During the two-month civil trial before District Judge Timothy C. Williams, Eglet, who represents Bonnie Brunson, 70, and her husband Carl, 71, pointed out that in 1992 HPN dropped Desai from its network of doctors because of quality concerns, only to reinstate him five years later because of his high volume, low-price bid.....
Lee Roberts, an attorney for HPN, said he will not discuss the case until the jury rules on punitive damages. In trying to pin the blame on Desai and not the insurer, HPN attorneys claimed during the trial that the insurer was unaware of any professional shortcomings of Desai or his colleagues before hiring them, arguing that HPN “did not instruct them how to perform endoscopy procedures or administer anesthesia.”
“We are disappointed, but not surprised, by this verdict given the volumes of essential evidence the jury was blocked from hearing during this trial,” said HPN spokesman Tyler Mason in a prepared statement. “We look forward to presenting our case on appeal.”
In 2011, Eglet and Kemp won hundreds of millions in civil judgments against drug companies they blamed for recklessly supplying large 50-milliliter vials of the anesthetic propofol to Desai’s clinics. Ten to 20 milliliter doses are common for outpatient colonoscopy cases....  http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/crime-courts/jury-finds-against-health-plan-nevada-awards-24-million-hepatitis-c-case
$8,000,000 per person in actual damages?   Stupid jurors.  Stupid judge.
And the lawyer wants $1,000,000,000 and my bet the jury is sooo damn stupid, that they will give them most, if not all of it. That's what stupid, Jerry Springer type jurors do.
And they wonder why it is tough to do business in Nevada- stupid jurors and courts.