Top Defense Verdicts In 2015

A ranking of the year’s top ten defense verdicts, from Courtroom View Network. The list is heavy on product liability cases, with “freak accident,” adherence to federal standards and the contention that “a known complication of medical treatment is not proof of negligence” among the mantras invoked by winning defense teams. Three big tobacco companies were cleared by a jury in a case that could have found them liable for a 95-year-old man’s bladder cancer and heart disease.