According to an article published by the North Carolina Law Review in 2010, the average wrongful death award in the United States from April 1998 to April 2008 was $3.4 million for an adult male, $3.0 million for an adult female and $5.2 million for a minor. Andrews’s demand for $75 million is not in the same ballpark as these data points

Wrongful death is considered the worst scenario of psychological distress.....thus the comparable.

More info in SI....but I dont think it looks good for her $75 mill.

http://www.si.com/more-sports/2015/10/17/erin-andrews-michael-david-barrett-marriott-international-lawsuit-peephole

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All the pics I saw were super blurry. $5k tops.

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Marriott needs to be punished. This was pretty egregious stuff on their part.

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Spot on.

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and if I were Marriott, I would have given the $10 million and ran away from this as quickly as possible. There are a lot of women staying alone in Marriott hotels on business trips. Do you think this info might give them pause about the security of a Marriott?

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I once was presented with a matter where big business was offering $5K on some matter. I said no. They asked what I wanted. I said $500K. I was hung up on. I had my $500K within two weeks. Sometimes you need someone to help you reassess a position you initially think is crazy.

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And sometimes you just need to sit back and see how anxiety works on wearing down your adversary.

And yeah, the Marriott should have paid this one off long ago.

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Never saw these pics. Are they worthy of my time? Shaved, partial or full bush? Does it look like a pile of old gyro meat?

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

I think I've told this story before but I went to south florida to visit a friend. He had a friend who is an agent to some lower end players. He brought some nondescript relief pitcher with the Marlins out with us one night and the ladies lined up for the guy. I don't know how they would have even known he was a pro athlete. Obviously they did because he wasn't a great looking guy.

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Did you ask him what he though of Ozzie as a manager?

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this was late 90s

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What were the circumstances of him getting the room next to her? I can't imagine he went up to the front desk and said, "Hi, I'd like the room next to Erin Andrews...I'm a big fan!" Maybe he said "Hi, I'm John Andrews, my sister Erin is staying with you and we'd like to have rooms next to each other." Or let's say he discreetly followed her into the hotel and up to her hallway and saw that she was in room 335. If he then asked for the room next door, let's say 333 -- without mentioning her name -- would (or should) the hotel have any reason to refuse the request assuming the room was available?

I think there are scenarios where Marriot was not grossly negligent. (But I don't know what happened in this specific case.) Certainly not $75 million negligent.

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Marriott should just run a "Holiday Inn Express" satire where some hot chick does a sideline report for the NFL, but then they cut and the announcer's say "You aren't our sideline reporter" and she responds with "No, but I did stay at a Marriott last night".

I'm pretty sure those scenarios would qualify as negligence too.

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I guess I'm just not aware of hotel protocol when it comes to room requests. At the time, Andrews was not famous and Marriot probably didn't take any extra steps to insure privacy. Should they have? (Obviously if they knowingly helped the guy, then that's different.)

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Andrews was there to cover the Vanderbilt football game, and it was on campus.

She was also quite famous at the time especially for those who follow college sports.

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I would assume that she uses a fake name, when checking into hotels.

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