So, you’ve been sued.
How much will you have to pay?
We analyzed basically every employment lawsuit in the history of mankind, plus all the latest litigation data, to come up with this handy tool to help guide your litigation and settlement decisions.
If your case has just one plaintiff and no horrible facts (e.g., TMZ-type allegations, exec wrongdoers, etc.), expect to pay between $0 and $50,000. That covers about a third of all cases.
If you have one plaintiff but horrible facts — 28 percent of cases — expect to pay between $50,000 and $100,000.
If you have a multiple-plaintiff case and/or really horrible facts, expect to pay between $100,000 and $1 million. Somewhat surprisingly, that’s more than a third of the cases out there.
And in the unfortunate event that you’re in the 1 percent that have a case with lots and lots of plaintiffs and/or realllllllly horrible facts, expect to pay more than $1 million.
(Sources: EEOC, Jury Verdict Research, Seyfarth Shaw, Fulbright)
This was originally published on Manpower Group’s Employment Blawg.