A look back at Pennsylvania’s largest verdicts and settlements over the last 19 years reveals a trend of larger awards over the past three years. The data also shows an overall average of about $34.5 million since 1994 — when The Legal Intelligencer began tracking each year’s largest verdicts and settlements — thanks in part to a few billion-dollar-plus results.

In addition, there doesn’t appear to have been any significant change in the annual averages following Pennsylvania’s adoption of the certificate of merit requirement in 2003.

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