Not egregious, certainly for the couple hundred dollars recovered. I was mostly pointing it out (1) because any lawyers here would find it interesting that someone, somewhere, once won on an NIED claim, and (2) so that non-lawyers wouldn't get the sense that NIED claims are winnable, in general. They are often tacked on to other, more legit claims, but they are very rarely won.

Egregious in the sense that it was so over the top obvious there was no other outcome but to award the win vs some minor squabble between two parties. Not that it was so egregious mountains of cash were expected.

The article doesn't say whether Savant Care showed up. If they didn't show up it would have been a default judgement.

Not sure of the jurisdiction issues where the judgement was issued but the last time I looked into it you can't meaningfully collect a judgement from small claims court in my area.

The article also didn't say whether the judgement was collected, just that it was won.