May 28, 1999

Exxon Pays for Research on Jury Awards, and Uses It in Court

There's nothing like a $5.3-billion legal penalty to pique a company's interest in sponsoring research on how juries make their decisions on punitive awards.

Exxon Corporation, which financed a series of such academic studies after being fined for its role in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil-tanker spill, hopes to use some of that research to overturn the 1994 judgment for damages.

As reported in The National

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