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I am not sure your plan would work. In most states when you file an appeal where a monetary reward has been obtained. The one who lost still has to the judgement before an appeal would even be argued. It will be paid to the winner with interest if the appeal was not won.

@@jharris3267 The amount of the trial judgment or at least a percentage thereof would be placed in escrow with the trial court clerk while the appeal was pending. Not sure which of those two is the case in my state (New York) I believe it's any percentage of the trial court judgment in the Appellate Division's discretion or at least the motions justice's order subject to review by the five justice merits panel. And any loss before the Appellate Division of Supreme Court would go to the Court of Appeals (our name of our state highest court, Supreme Court is the main general trial court here, screwed up arrangement I know.) And another way out at least here in America from having to pay: declaring voluntary bankruptcy. A bankruptcy petition in US Bankruptcy Court for the federal district the case is located (for me it'd be the Northern District of New York, Albany Division) would under the Bankruptcy Code impose an automatic stay of any and all state and federal court judgments for monetary collections of damages awards, within several exceptions it'd take a long while to list. In short it'd take several months to a year to either show the bankruptcy petition itself is fraudulent attempt to dodge debts not dischargeable by bankruptcy law or show why the bankruptcy should not be allowed and basically use the federal bankruptcy laws to screw them out of their debts they feel they are owed. They can motion the bankruptcy judge to lift the automatic stay on their judgment but it's a hard thing to accomplish. Sorry about the long ramble, just trying to explain my thinking thoroughly so no mistakes are made.