Emotion, outside funding driving up cost of litigation

Nuclear verdicts and the emotional impact on jury awards

Nuclear verdicts may be few, but their impacts resonate across the trucking insurance space, if only because the numbers are so eye-popping. Payouts of $20 million, $30 million and even $90 million-plus have been awarded to victims of incidents involving trucks but sometimes not even the fault of the truck driver. And these awards drive up costs for everyone.

Defined as a jury award above $10 million, nuclear verdicts are not new, but they are seemingly on the rise. And large jury awards not...

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