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TM HALO® Presents: You Can Stop Nuclear Verdicts®️ Today: Why Won’t You?!

Wednesday, October 30 at 11:00 AM-12:00 PM PT

We know the causes of Nuclear Verdicts®, and we know how to stop them. Then why do they keep happening? Why do insurance companies and their counsel refuse to stop them?

In this session, trial experts and TM HALO® Partners Robert Tyson, Mina Miserlis, and Holly Howanitz will address the most common pushback to using the proven methods to stop Nuclear Verdicts®, including:

“If we accept responsibility, it will look like an admission of fault.”
“If we give a number, we are setting a floor for damages.”
“The judge will not let us personalize our client, so we are not going to even try.”
“The insured, broker, personal counsel, excess carrier, etc. does not want to accept responsibility ”
“We cannot give the jury a defense number that is above insurance policy limits.”
“If we argue pain and suffering or stipulate to liability, we are one step closer to getting hit with punitive damages.”
“We don’t want to go into the next level of excess insurance in the tower.”
“We won’t get the full tower to agree to giving a number, so it won’t be done.”
“If we give the jury a defense number, we won’t get a defense verdict.”
“Why would we give a number for damages we didn’t cause and our experts agree we didn’t cause?”
“I have never done it this way in my entire career, why would I do it now?”
“Accepting responsibility would require us to rewrite our policies.”
“If we accept responsibility, we are stipulating that our co-defendant was in the course and scope of his employment.”
“If we have a corporate representative testify, we are opening the door to other evidence coming in!”
“We can’t give a number because we don’t know what our experts will say yet.”
“Accepting responsibility is an admission of liability.”
“We can’t talk to this witness about our number because they are just going to disagree in front of the jury.”
“I can’t tell the corporate story or accept responsibility in opening because it is ‘argumentative.’”

If the industry stands a chance of stopping Nuclear Verdicts®, it is time to change! Attendees will be challenged and empowered to change the status quo and focus on what is driving these unjust awards to flip the script and take back justice for all!