The truth is that it’s all in picking the right jury, and if the plaintiff’s attorney does their job well, this is the sort of nonsense we can expect.
I got called for jury duty where the plaintiff was suing a pharma company for TWENTY MILLION. The plaintiff was partially blind due to taking a generic prescribed drug. They had already settled with Brooks Drugs and the prescribing doctor.
I was juror number 33 out of a pool of 120 ish. They never picked my number. However, it was interesting to go through the process. Out of a pool of 120 only me and one other guy wore a suit and tie. Then made sure the Plaintiff lawyers knew I was Conservative. So that they would not want me in the box.
They filled the jury plus the alternatives by mid afternoon and released the rest of us. The trial lasted two weeks. They awarded the lady/plaintiff the twenty million. The insurance company/pharma lawyers filed an appeal with the Federal Circuit court.
Senator Jean Shaheen’s husbands firm Gordon/Shaheen represented the plaintiff. There were at least fifteen lawyers in the Federal court that day in Concord, NH.
It was an interesting civics lesson.