As long as I can remember, I have always enjoyed television drama series related to crimes and the legal profession. I still vividly recall being in college in Beijing, watching CSI and Criminal Minds. At least as far back as the early 2000s, Facebook and American television shows were readily accessible in China. I enjoyed learning about different legal systems and how legal professionals...

While sometimes considered political rhetoric, tort reform is real. However, it is slow and far from uniform across jurisdictions. In recent years, some state legislatures across the country have continued to plug away at enacting reforms aimed at addressing Nuclear Verdicts® and broader concerns around social inflation. Social inflation generally describes the increase of insurance claims payouts and loss ratios due...

On February 5, 2026, a Warren County, New Jersey jury returned a $12 million verdict—$4 million in compensatory damages and an additional $8 million in punitive damages—against a small trucking company and its driver in the first civil jury trial held in that county in approximately thirteen years. The case, Vieira v. BJJ Enterprises, LLC, (WRN-L-047-22), involved a rear-end tractor-trailer collision on Route 78 East in...