I've gotten many multimillion-dollar judgments in state court over my 17-year career, but I've never won a judgment of any significant size for plaintiffs in federal court.

Among the companies that have lost multimillion-dollar judgments since last fall are Dow, Halliburton and 3M.

Hundreds of multimillion-dollar judgments could result from the suits that are being brought individually by women who refused to join the class action, the company says.

While people can also be found liable for punitive damages, most such lawsuits are against corporate "deep pockets" that can afford to pay the growing number of multimillion-dollar judgments.

Those multimillion-dollar judgments have strained the budgets of the Federal Government and the states, which jointly finance Medicaid for low-income people.

Each won multimillion-dollar judgments against him.

Worried about the possibility of multimillion-dollar judgments, many companies sought coverage, although the policies typically do not cover punitive damages.

The risk of multimillion-dollar judgments attracts their attention in ways that even criminal charges against individual officers might not.

I'm the one who's won multimillion-dollar judgments.

And there is no shortage of multimillion-dollar judgments by juries deciding defamation cases.