This article, like most others covering a topic as dull as pre-judgment interest, doesn’t make for the most exciting reading. That excitement usually occurs after a business trial, during the conversation between a client and his lawyer who failed to properly consider how to handle a potential award of pre-judgment interest – the interest that accrues on an alleged obligation from a time prior to trial to the date of entry of judgment.

In a business case, it is not unusual for the disputed events to occur at least a year, if not several years, before trial. Pre-judgment interest may therefore constitute a significant portion of the award sought at trial. read more