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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.

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What is the right size of a verdict?

For insurance companies, the value of a human life is a cost that can be measured and calculated.

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A rightsized verdict is one a jury determines will hold accountable those who refuse to be responsible. (Photo: Bigstock)

After the trial, a juror stands in a hallway outside the courtroom, leaning against a wall. She and the rest of her jury had just ordered a trucking company, and unknowingly their insurance company, to pay millions and millions of dollars for the death of a young woman — the largest jury verdict ever in this courtroom.

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