Ten-Digit Damages in Water Drinking Contest Trial?
Remember Jennifer Strange, the woman who died after winning a “water-drinking” contest back in 2007? You can read about this story here. Well, the jury is deliberating the fate of the company that owns that radio station. Entercom is the company. The jury reportedly asked for access to Microsoft Excel, but Judge Lloyd Phillips refused, giving them instead a standard eight-digit calculator. Apparently that wasn’t enough, because they sent it back asking for a 10-digit calculator. Let’s see, what is the smallest 10-digit number: That would be a one with nine zeroes, right? How about this:
$1,000,000,000
That is one BILLION dollars folks. Could this jury be considering awarding the family of Jennifer Strange over a billion dollars?
I guess all you radio station promotion directors out there should remember this when planning your giveaways. Do your homework.
[...] In the water-drinking-contest trial of Entercom, a major radio broadcast station group, the jury is in. I asked the question earlier if the jury might return a BILLION-dollar verdict. See that post here. [...]
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