The top verdict in the country came in antitrust law: A $1.2 billion award against The Dow Chemical Co. in a case involving price-fixing of urethane. That outcome pushed antitrust awards to the No. 1 category, last year topping out at nearly $1.5 billion.

‘Snoozer’ Trial Yields Biggest Verdict
The jurors may have been bored to tears by the trial, but they delivered a whopping $400 million award to the plaintiffs in an antitrust action against Dow Chemical.

CHART: TOP VERDICTS OF 2013
The National Law Journal’s VerdictSearch affiliate scoured the nation’s court records in search of the previous year’s biggest verdicts.

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