Trends In Employment Practices Liability, 2013-2019 |
|
Year |
Median (midpoint) award |
Probability range (1) |
2013 |
$100,000 |
$15,707 - $251,623 |
2014 |
86,250 |
20,000 - 302,574 |
2015 |
83,000 |
17,839 - 347,498 |
2016 |
122,170 |
25,000 - 447,437 |
2017 |
126,000 |
25,000 - 550,000 |
2018 |
190,000 |
34,193 - 551,121 |
2019 |
209,191 |
58,083 - 636,500 |
Overall |
$120,000 |
$25,000 -$414,150 |
(1) The middle 50 percent of all awards arranged in ascending order in a sampling, 25 percent above and below the median award. The median represents the midpoint jury award. Half of the awards are above the median and half are below. This helps establish where awards tend to cluster.
Source: Reprinted with permission of Thomson Reuters, Employment Practice Liability: Jury Award Trends and Statistics, 2020 edition. |
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