Plaintiff Counsel’s Mid-Trial Social Media Post Results in Reversal of Jury Verdict in Illinois Court of Appeals

An Illinois appellate court recently reversed a $43 million jury verdict in a personal injury case (Kroft v. Viper Trans, Inc.)1 involving an automobile collision, remanding the case for another trial—now the third—after the plaintiffs’ counsel posted potentially misleading information to its website and Facebook. The content in question? A blog post titled “What Jurors Should Know But Don’t,” in which plaintiffs’ attorneys not only claimed that jury members in the first trial were “kept in the…
By: Fishman Haygood LLP