One hundred verdicts in 2018 were over 22m each 1 make sure you understand the forces behind today s more complicated and expanded liability risks or your company could pay a hefty price. Nuclear verdicts which exceed 10m are on the rise driven by both financial and social factors. Johnson johnson is a major corporation that can afford the verdict that was issued but for other companies gray areas of liability present major risks and have led to a.
A nuclear verdict is an award that consists of 10 million or more depending on the size of the company it could be less that results in extreme loss to the debtor. Nuclear verdicts focuses on learning how to take responsibility for yourself and the meaning of fairness this book was perfect timing for me because a friend of mine is actually i between back to back trials for small things like marijuana or tickets and i feel like this helped me get a better understanding of how jury verdicts go. Bad trucking companies are strangling the trucking industry.
Verdicts aren t strangling the trucking industry. Nuclear verdicts are the result of nuclear injuries paralysis brain damage and death when the truck company has acted extremely recklessly sometimes with impunity and refuse to be accountable. I believe everyone has the right to a fair trial not just plaintiff lawyers and their clients.
I wrote this book because i care about fairness. This is the first book ever written for the defense on how to avoid runaway jury verdicts. Summary told by bob.
Defending justice for all by robert f. Essentially the jury is correcting the livelihood of one human by destroying the livelihood of another. Consequently they go broke and their entire family is in dire straits.
A nuclear verdict can destroy the life of an owner operator by driving him or her out of business. Many who spoke with the legal described it as an award that is significantly higher than would be expected given the injuries in the case. The term nuclear verdict has a bit of a fluid meaning.
New research by the american transportation research institute atri provides more evidence that large legal nuclear verdicts against truck fleets are increasing dramatically in both number and.
Nuclear verdicts. A nuclear verdict is defined as a jury award in which the penalty exceeds 10 million though there are several alternate definitions that are more intricate as i describe later. Rising insurance premiums and nuclear verdicts are often cited in carrier bankruptcies as the primary causes for shutting down. Nuclear verdicts first began in 1994 when a jury awarded a 2 7 million verdict in punitive charges for selling scalding coffee. While the amount was reduced after the appeal and then settled for an undisclosed amount the large verdict captured america s attention and became the standard.
While the amount was reduced after the appeal and then settled for an undisclosed amount the large verdict captured america s attention and became the standard. Nuclear verdicts first began in 1994 when a jury awarded a 2 7 million verdict in punitive charges for selling scalding coffee. Rising insurance premiums and nuclear verdicts are often cited in carrier bankruptcies as the primary causes for shutting down.
A nuclear verdict is defined as a jury award in which the penalty exceeds 10 million though there are several alternate definitions that are more intricate as i describe later.
