A rightsized verdict is one a jury determines will hold accountable those who refuse to be responsible. (Photo: Bigstock) A rightsized verdict is one a jury determines will hold accountable those who refuse to be responsible. (Photo: Bigstock)

After the trial, a juror stands in a hallway outside the courtroom, leaning against a wall. She and the rest of her jury had just ordered a trucking company, and unknowingly their insurance company, to pay millions and millions of dollars for the death of a young woman — the largest jury verdict ever in this courtroom.

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