Now we see his point pretty clearly. On Tuesday, a California state court jury awarded $671 million in damages to a class of plaintiffs who alleged that Skilled Healthcare Group had inadequately staffed its nursing homes. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, this is the largest verdict of 2010.
(Bad news apparently comes in twos for California defendants. Bloomberg reported late Wednesday that state court jurors delivered a $269.4 million verdict against Walt Disney in litigation over profits from the hit show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”; that verdict is reportedly the third-largest of the year. We’ll have more on the Millionaire case, which we previewed last month, on Thursday.)
