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.