In the U.K., for example, compensation for egg donation is capped at 750 pounds, or $956 dollars, while in France, only travel costs can be compensated.
Compensation for luggage lost on an international flight is capped at 1,000 Special Drawing Rights, a currency established by the International Monetary Fund and governed by the Montreal Convention.
The amount for medical expenses compensation has been capped at SGD 30,000 (USD 22,386) (67), which can also be easily breached due to high cost of services (68).
The company initially suggested that compensation payments might be capped, since laws in Japan can limit claims stemming from accidents caused by natural disasters.
"In the tradition of unintended consequences for compensation regulations, while incentives were capped, salaries, which were not capped, ballooned," the study says.
North Carolina has since updated its compensation statute to provide job-training and college tuition for exonerated inmates, but compensation is now capped at $750,000, an inadequate amount for someone who paid for another man's crime with 20 years of his life.
Dill was represented at trial by court-appointed lawyers whose compensation for out-of-court preparation was capped at $1,000 by Alabama law.
Ms. Row, at the home care academy, said that before 1997, compensation for the most complex medical case was capped at about $92.
His state-appointed attorney William J. Willingham was embarrassingly underpaid at the time, overall compensation to capital trial attorneys for out-of-court work was capped at $1,000 and by his own admission, poorly qualified.
