Mitigating the Risk of a Commercial Motor Vehicle Claim

The numbers are frightening. In recent years, juries have routinely rendered outsized verdicts, a trend attributable in part to social inflation, public sentiment toward corporate defendants, and sophisticated litigation tactics employed by the plaintiffs’ bar. Nuclear verdicts – generally perceived as those in excess of $10 million – are a regular occurrence. Research has shown a steady increase in the volume and amount of nuclear verdicts over the last decade, with a sharp spike following the…
By: Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires &