Litigation Financing: A Dangerous Game or Levels the Courtroom Playing Field? July 25, 2023 By Jim Sams In insurance defense attorney Dennis Kass’ world, litigation financing firms lurk behind the scenes, pushing plaintiffs to undergo as much...
FedEx Loses Bid to Undo $366M Racial Bias Verdict, Files Appeal February 3, 2023 By Jonathan Stempel A U.S. judge rejected FedEx Corp’s request to throw out or reduce a jury’s $366 million damages award to a...
Courtroom Predictions for 2023 From Clyde & Co December 15, 2022 Insurance law firm Clyde & Co put together some predictions for 2023. The bad news for claims: nuclear verdicts aren’t...
Mom Hopes Insurers Take Note of $77M Verdict Against Georgia Addiction Center September 9, 2022 Nick Carusillo died when he was hit by multiple vehicles on a Georgia interstate, just days after he was abruptly...
Viewpoint: Jury Blasts Defense with a $464.5 Million Nuclear Verdict August 2, 2022 By Robert F. Tyson and Shari E. Belitz Plaintiffs’ California dreamin’ became a reality when a Los Angeles jury went nuclear with a verdict of $464.6 million after...
Charter Spectrum Hit With $7.3B Verdict in Texas over Murder of 83-Year-Old July 27, 2022 Charter Communications was hit with a combined $7.37 billion verdict – including $7 billion meant to punish the company –...
Miami Jury Orders Bar That Served Drunken Driver to Pay $96M in Damages July 7, 2022 By William Rabb A Miami-Dade jury has returned one of the largest verdicts ever in an automobile accident case, awarding $95 million in...
Insurers Taking Note of Big Verdicts, But Trial Lawyers Say Don’t Count on Changes December 1, 2021 By William Rabb When CVS Pharmacies, just weeks after a Georgia appeals court upheld a $43 million premises liability verdict against the company,...
Nuclear Verdicts – A Case for the Insights That Technology Can Provide February 11, 2021 By Wesley Todd Nuclear verdicts are a hot topic of discussion across our industry. This is no longer some other claims organization’s problem...
Bills in Congress, States Seek to Curb Litigation Funding February 20, 2020 By Jim Sams Lawmakers in three states and in Congress have introduced bills to impose more controls on litigation funding companies, which insurers...