A Toyota ‘Fanboy,’ Data-Driven Testimony, and ‘Fancy Hair Flips’: Why the Jurors Say They Awarded the Reavis Family $242M

(Aug. 20) – What is on a juror’s mind is often cryptic during trial, so it’s a natural reaction for the lawyers involved to make a mad dash to members of the jury once the verdict is out and they are excused from duty.

It was no exception moments after Friday’s $242 million verdict in Dallas District Judge Dale Tillery’s courtroom. The jury found Toyota predominately liable for traumatic brain injury sustained by the two small children of Benjamin and Kristi Reavis in a 2016 rear-end accident involving the family’s Lexus.