The award median for a personal injury case in Kentucky is $20,000 , and the national award median is $38,461. While the medians differ greatly, the plaintiff recovery probabilities - the number of plaintiff verdicts to total verdicts - are nearly the same with Kentucky at 52 percent and the national at 55 percent, according to Jury Verdict Research®'s 2005 Kentucky Verdict Survey.

The statistics are based on verdicts rendered in Kentucky from 1998 through 2004. The study also includes a breakdown of specific injury and liability categories in the state of Kentucky.

The following table outlines the overall award standings in Kentucky as compared with the yearly award medians for the nation.

The median is the middle value among awards listed in ascending order. This value provides the most accurate gauge of the norm for a specific sampling of jury award data.

Jury Verdict Research® maintains the only nationwide database of more than 250,000 plaintiff and defense verdicts and settlements, resulting from personal injury claims. The data are reported, tabulated and analyzed to determine values, trends and deviations for 400 injuries and 300 liabilities. Jury Verdict Research® is a division of LRP Publications, Inc.