Jury Selection Strategies in Insurance Litigation: Key Issues for Trial Counsel in Bad Faith and Coverage Cases
Preparing for Voir Dire, Exposing Bias, Leveraging Strikes
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will provide attorneys litigating common bad faith or coverage issues with strategic techniques for jury selection. The panel will discuss preparing for voir dire, the practical usefulness of social media and questionnaires, juror profiles, dealing with tainted jurors, and avoiding common mistakes during voir dire.
Outline
- Governing law
- Statutory rules
- Types of jury selection
- Jury selection in bad faith cases
- Claims handling
- Failure to defend
- Failure to settle within limits
- Jury selection in coverage cases
- Policyholder/assignee as plaintiff
- Declaratory judgment actions--insurer as plaintiff
- Supplemental juror questionnaires
Benefits
The panel will review these and other crucial issues:
- How does one convince a judge to allow the use of juror questionnaires, and how are they best used efficiently and effectively?
- Are there certain juror "profiles" to avoid in bad faith or coverage cases?
- When might an employee of an insurer be a good juror for policyholders?
Faculty
Eliot M. Harris
Member
Williams Kastner
Mr. Harris' practice focuses on commercial litigation with an emphasis on insurance coverage, including general... | Read More
Mr. Harris' practice focuses on commercial litigation with an emphasis on insurance coverage, including general liability coverage, intellectual property coverage, construction defect coverage, and professional liability coverage. He also is experienced defending lawsuits involving catastrophic personal injuries, environmental toxic tort, intellectual property and product liability matters. He wrote an article for the Business Litigation Committee Newsletter of the ABA, on insurer's duty to defend, The Duty to Defend: What Insurers, Insureds and Their Counsel Need to Know When Faced With a Liability Coverage Dispute.
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Robert E. Ray, J.D., Ph.D.
Chief Trial Consultant
Veritas Research
As a trial consultant, Dr. Ray brings a wealth of experience to the table, both as a trial consultant and as a trial... | Read More
As a trial consultant, Dr. Ray brings a wealth of experience to the table, both as a trial consultant and as a trial attorney. Since 1998, he has provided research and courtroom consulting to attorneys in cases throughout the United States, including theme development and strategy advice. He has provided research and consulting advice in mass tort actions such as tobacco and pharmaceutical litigation to insurance disputes and entertainment and publishing cases.
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