{"id":5127,"date":"2025-04-06T20:40:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T20:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/third-times-a-charm-43m-verdict-overturned-again-for-law-firms-posts-state-appellate-court-says\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T20:40:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T20:40:28","slug":"third-times-a-charm-43m-verdict-overturned-again-for-law-firms-posts-state-appellate-court-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/third-times-a-charm-43m-verdict-overturned-again-for-law-firms-posts-state-appellate-court-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Time&#8217;s a Charm? $43M Verdict Overturned Again for Law Firm&#8217;s Posts, State Appellate Court Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A $43 million personal injury suit is heading for a third trial after the prevailing attorney jeopardized the verdict for a second time, an Illinois appellate court ruled this week. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.alm.com\/ca\/f8\/14a410ae4bf1a64187312db474d6\/kroft-v-viper-trans-inc-2025-il-app-1st-240220.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Monday<\/a>, the state&#8217;s First District Appellate Court tossed the multi-million verdict in favor of Cynthia and Mark Kroft, finding the couple&#8217;s attorney made a social media post in a &#8220;deliberate effort to reach the jury&#8221; and potentially sway the outcome of the second trial in 2023. It&#8217;s the second time the Kroft&#8217;s attorney, Kenneth J. Allen, a principal at the mid-size Chicago personal injury firm, played a role in the appellate court&#8217;s rejection of the plaintiff-favorable verdicts, according to the appellate court. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $43 million personal injury suit is heading for a third trial after the prevailing attorney jeopardized the verdict for a second time, an Illinois appellate court ruled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5406,1389,5405,143,191,153,3416,2376,1911,2894,395],"class_list":["post-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-43m","tag-appellate","tag-charm","tag-court","tag-firms","tag-law","tag-overturned","tag-posts","tag-state","tag-times","tag-verdict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}