Innovation Consulting Projects Studies

Nuclear Verdicts: Exploring Aggravating Factors In Cook County and Gwinnett County

Nuclear Verdicts are jury verdicts or settlements that are over $10 million. Current legal trends indicate that nuclear verdicts are here to stay, and the amounts awarded are only getting larger. This paper, using current literature and research, makes observations of some of the socioeconomic and legal driving factors behind nuclear verdicts within two jurisdictions: Cook County, Illinois, and Gwinnett County Georgia.

Joseph Brune, Andrew Cummings, Paris Ford, Alicia Hoffman, Katie Jacobus, Carlos Morn-Toro, Sejal Pamnani, Zachary Schaefer, and Kevin Schultz
Illinois State University Innovation Consulting Community
04/07/2024