A summary jury trial is a procedure involving an abbreviated presentation of evidence to an advisory jury. Such proceedings have been used in a wide variety of mass tort cases and have been found to be a very effective technique for assessing individual claims in such cases — without the parties incurring the costs and expense associated with a full jury trial.
Summary jury trial procedures are intended to be flexible. The parties may jointly agree to select single issues and/or claims for the trial or may seek a far more comprehensive resolution (e.g., a summary jury trial may address a single claim for damages; all damage claims; all liability issues; causation disputes; the effect of particular exposures; etc.). Depending on the nature of the summary proceedings to be conducted, special targeted discovery steps may be implemented by the court.
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