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Top Verdicts

Feb. 16, 2012

State Top Plaintiffs’ Verdicts by Dollar--State Compensation Insurance Fund v. Onvoi Business Solutions, Inc., Select Personnel Services, Inc.


Gregory A. Long had a challenge: overcoming an often negative image of insurance companies so that jurors could keep an open mind.


"The strategy was to explain to the jury that they weren't dealing with a behemoth insurance company that jerks everyone round and refuses to take claims," Long said.


In this case, his client, State Compensation Insurance Fund, which provides workers' compensation insurance in California, was embroiled in ...

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