Leaders at one of the largest national insurance defense firms believe they have identified the causes of nuclear verdicts—and developed a comprehensive litigation strategy that negates them. A new book about that strategy and the data behind it will be released this year.
Named “Apex,” the strategy pulls from firsthand courtroom experience and information from more than 100 nuclear verdicts to combat what leaders at Tyson & Mendes describe as the rise of outsized and unjust nuclear verdicts.
The law firm has used parts of the Apex method for 30 years, but the methodology’s structure has crystallized in the past decade. Robert Tyson and Cayce Lynch, partners at the firm, co-authored “Nuclear Verdicts: …