{"id":181418530,"date":"2010-10-01T18:02:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=181418530"},"modified":"2010-10-01T18:02:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T18:02:10","slug":"average-bicycle-accident-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=181418530","title":{"rendered":"Average Bicycle Accident Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Ronald V. Miller, Jr.<br \/>\nJury Verdict Research conducted a study of its database of verdicts and found that the average jury award in a bicycle accident case is $279,970. Underscoring how high jury verdicts distort the average verdict, the overall median money awarded in bike accident cases is $50,000. Moreover, Plaintiff&#8217;s only prevail in 41% of the cases that go to trial.<br \/>\nI think the relatively low success rate of bicycle accident cases at trial is a general bias against bikes that may be even stronger than the bias against motorcycles. Many jurors, who typically drive cars, simply think bicycles shouldn&#8217;t be on the road.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marylandinjurylawyerblog.com\/2010\/09\/average_bicycle_accident_verdi.html\">https:\/\/www.marylandinjurylawyerblog.com\/2010\/09\/average_bicycle_accident_verdi.html<\/a>oldId.20101001180210566<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ronald V. Miller, Jr. Jury Verdict Research conducted a study of its database of verdicts and found that the average jury award in a bicycle accident case is $279,970. Underscoring how high jury verdicts distort the average verdict, the overall median money awarded in bike accident cases is $50,000. Moreover, Plaintiff&#8217;s only prevail in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=181418530\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Average Bicycle Accident Verdict&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181418530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181418530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181418530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181418530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181418530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181418530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181418530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}