University Study Indicates Better Lawsuit Results for English Speakers

A abstraction from the Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business™ indicates that English-speaking Hispanic plaintiffs acquaintance bigger after-effects in noncombatant lawsuits than their non-English-speaking counterparts.

The study, presented in a cardboard by Dallas advocate Angel Reyes and Texas Tech advisers Bradley T. Ewing, Ph.D. and James C. Wetherbe, Ph.D., is based on the outcomes of added than 200 claimed abrasion verdicts amid 1996 and 2007. In analytical the cases, the authors approved to actuate whether any accidental agency could be affiliated to board verdicts area the amounts awarded were decidedly beneath than what plaintiffs were offered in out-of-court settlements.

While added contempo analysis has apparent that board verdicts rarely beat the endure adjustment offer, the after-effects of the Reyes-Ewing-Wetherbe abstraction announce that Hispanic plaintiffs who relied on an analyst during affidavit were 15 percent beneath acceptable than an English apostle to access a board adjudication that exceeded the endure adjustment offer.

“What this abstraction shows is that while Lady Justice is blindfolded, she absolutely is not deaf,” says Mr. Reyes, co-author of the study. “This abstraction raises abstruse questions not alone about the appropriate to a fair board trial, which is one of the foundations of our Constitution, but aswell the bread-and-butter and amusing appulse presented by accent differences in our acknowledged system.”

The Reyes-Ewing-Wetherbe study, based aloft 223 claimed abrasion board verdicts over the accomplished decade in over 16 Texas counties, highlights the challenges adverse not alone non-English-speaking citizens, but the Hispanic association as a whole.

“We entered this activity assured to acquisition some disparity, and although this was a bound study, the after-effects were an eye-opener,” says Mr. Reyes. “The award that board verdicts may not be language-neutral should aswell be of absorption to policymakers, board and association leaders who accord with Hispanic issues. This is something that absolutely warrants added research.”

For added advice on the abstraction involving accent and balloon outcomes, amuse acquaintance Mark Annick at 800-559-4534, 214-213-1754 (mobile) or mark@androvett.com.