The Power to Persuade

If you doubt that even the most committed lawsuit opponents can be persuaded by the facts when they get in a jury box, just remember the case of Joyce Reynolds. This summer, the New Jersey woman won an $876,000 verdict (upheld in August) for injuries she sustained slipping in a puddle at a local Shop-Rite. The foreman on that "runaway jury" was Republican state senator Robert J. Martin, a tort reform supporter...