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Are insurers prepared for the COVID-19-related litigation avalanche?
The legal and insurance industries share a unique relationship - one that works for and, at times, against each other. This collection of articles addresses key and emerging issues overlapping the law and insurance sectors.
The $8 billion Risperdal verdict last week against Johnson & Johnson raised an increasingly common question: What convinces jurors to come back with such stratospheric awards?
The answer is not that simple. Lawyers and legal experts list a host of reasons: evolving societal norms, changes in the plaintiff’s bar and the actions of defendants. Most agree that though billion-dollar verdicts have not necessarily increased in frequency, jury awards, in general, are getting larger.
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