Tort reform supporters argue that it is difficult for juries to assign a dollar value to these losses with the guidance they are normally given. They argue that there is no basis for non-economic damages, and uncapped non-economic damages violate the equitable principles of justice by being inherently quite random, because different juries will always come to different results. Because of the highly charged environment of personal injury trials, they contend that some awards will inevitably be unreasonable. For example, in "Ernst v. Merck", a Texas Vioxx products liability case, the jury issued a verdict of $24 million in compensatory damages, which includes non-economic damages, for a widow of a 59-year-old triathlete who died from arrhythmia, or an irregular heartbeat, that could have been prevented had Merck provided warnings about the drug. Tort reform supporters argue that the widow had not been married a long time, and suggest that the damage award was excessive. However, since the basis for non-economic damages are not easily measured by a dollar amount (which tort reform supporters themselves argue), by the same logic there is no basis to assume that the award was, in fact, excessive.