
Nuclear Verdicts®
The Rising Threat
of Nuclear Verdicts®
What Are Nuclear Verdicts®?
Nuclear Verdicts® are jury awards that surpass $10 million. These excessive verdicts are driven by juror anger at defendants and typically include a noneconomic damages award that is grossly disproportionate to the economic damages awarded in the case. Nuclear Verdicts seek to “make an example” of the defendant. Fueled by the “Reptile Theory,” jurors use excessive damages awards to punish defendants and ostensibly “send a message” with the intent of preventing the type of harm in the case from recurring. Unfortunately, this does not result in justice…for anyone!
The Nuclear Verdicts® Tracker
Tyson & Mendes tracks cases that resulted in Nuclear Verdicts®. Through these cases, we examine the increasing disconnection between liability claims and damages awarded by juries. The Nuclear Verdicts® Tracker is a representative sample of cases across a variety of legal practices which show how deeply pervasive the trend is for delivering a nuclear verdict. Each of the cases in the Nuclear Verdicts® Tracker was defended by another law firm; none of them used the Tyson & Mendes methods for defending against Nuclear Verdicts®; and all of them resulted in a verdict of more than $10 million. These Nuclear Verdicts® could have been stopped!
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Defending Justice for All
Defendants are entitled to have a jury decide their case without being riled with anger and bias by creative plaintiff lawyers, which is why Tyson & Mendes is dedicated to changing the way Nuclear Verdicts® cases are defended. Through decades of trial wins, we have honed the Tyson & Mendes Methods for defending cases, and we broadly share our methods in interviews, podcasts, articles, and at conferences with the purpose of teaching the defense bar how to stop Nuclear Verdicts®.
Presented by Courtroom Sciences, Inc. (CSI)
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Presented U.S. Chamber Institute For Legal Reform
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