An attorney who recently scored what appears to be a Pittsburgh collar county’s largest-ever civil verdict said getting the jury’s support came down to presenting a plaintiff with whom the jury could sympathize.
In a region where verdicts rarely surpass six digits, Rosen & Perry’s Michael Calder said that some of the Westmoreland County trial jurors said after the trial they had fought to value the damages as even more than the $19 million they ultimately handed down. The jury arrived at its liability finding within the first few minutes of its two-hour deliberation, according to Calder.
