Recently, the defense bar has increasingly cast class action verdicts of a certain size as "shock," "runaway," or "nuclear" verdicts. What qualifies as a "nuclear" or "shock" verdict is apparently defined as jury awards as low as $10 million, the implication being that any verdict exceeding seven figures surpasses what they would have one believe is a "reasonable" or "rational" plaintiff's verdict. Under this definition, a large enough sum recovered by plaintiffs is presumptively "unreasonable," without regard to the evidence actually presented at trial and its relation to the actual harm that the defendant caused to plaintiffs and the other class members.