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State Farm Attacks Verdict -- and Jurors in Utah Trial.(Originated from The Salt Lake Tribune)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 1997 by McCann, Sheila R.
Jan. 13--Hit with one of the largest punitive-damage awards in Utah history, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. now has shifted its attack to the Salt Lake City jury that reached the $145 million-plus verdict.
The complex two-month trial consumed the jurors' summer. After returning their verdict on July 31, the eight jurors told 3rd District Judge William B. Bohling they did not want to discuss the case and their deliberations with anyone.
Bohling informed lawyers for both sides.
State Farm, however, contacted some jurors -- hoping, in part, to determine if there was jury misconduct or other ammunition to request a new trial.
Feeling harassed, jurors complained to Bohling and several of the jurors hired an...
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