Verdict Facts

After a truck smashed into Timothy Kuhn's stationary car at 45 mph, his own insurer USAA - which had already ruled him not at fault - offered him $10,000 for a traumatic brain injury. Then they intervened in his lawsuit and argued the crash was HIS fault. Days before trial they finally offered the full $250,000 policy limit. The jury gave him $114 million instead.

A school groundskeeper spent years mixing and spraying Roundup and was twice soaked to the skin when the equipment failed. When he was diagnosed with terminal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, he sued Monsanto. A San Francisco jury awarded him $289 million in the first-ever Roundup trial - $250 million of it punitive. The day the verdict landed, Bayer lost $14 billion in stock value.