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Re:Charter told to pay $7.3b in damages after cable installe... by spicymaki on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @02:19PM (#32254377)
I personally believe that the value of a human life is priceless (in a subjective sense). However in an objective sense you can use a heuristic to figure out damages a company should payout. I would love to know how the jury came up with that number.
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Re:Charter told to pay $7.3b in damages after cable installe... by Ekaros on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:21PM (#32255405)
Specially when in this case the victim was 83 year old... Objectively there isn't much life time earnings left there or even qualitative years. So I don't know what objective metric could get it to that level.
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