The leading sources for jury verdict research are listed on the University of Washington's Jury Verdicts, Settlements, Judgments, and Liens page and Georgetown Law Library's Jury Verdicts & Jury Instructions Research Guide page.
You can search a broad collection of verdict reporters simultaneously on Lexis (VERDCT;ALLVER) or Westlaw (JV-ALL). Lexis also offers online treatise called What's It Worth that contains data on personal injury verdicts (2NDARY;WORTH) and a database with news stories about verdicts, settlements and judicial decisions (MEGA;MGAVER). Westlaw has equivalent databases, and Westlaw's Case Evaluator template is designed to expedite Westlaw verdict research.
The National Association of State Jury Verdict Publishers provides links to most state-wide verdict and settlement reporters.
Jury Verdict Publications produces a line of monthly newsletters reporting verdicts, including Medical Litigation Alert, The National Jury Verdict Review and Analysis, the New England Jury Verdict Review and Analysis, and single-state equivalents for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida. The company enters these write-ups in their Verdict-Trak database and, for a fee, you can request a database search using the forms on the Verdict-Trak Web page (www.jvra.com/Verdict-Trak_Search.asp).
Finally, big jury verdicts and settlements are reported in the back of the National Law Journal and in many other legal newspapers and magazines.
For more information, For settlement information, see the Appendix to Blanca Fromm's "Bringing Settlement Out of the Shadows: Information about Settlement in an Age of Confidentiality," 48 UCLA Law Review 663-741
(2001).
Information on state-specific jury verdicts and settlements sources is included in entries for some of the individual states.
