Every year, Dictionary.com chooses a word of the year based on the current cultural climate and increased searches on its website. In 2018, the website chose the word ‘misinformation,’ to highlight increasing concerns regarding the spread of misleading or false information in the public sphere. When coupled with public opinion polls, the prominence of this term highlights a trend both in the United States and globally: People are trusting others less. And this lack of trust extends into many facets of everyday life. Trust in government is down. Trust in media is down. And trust in business is down. According

As discussed in Part 1, Litigation Insights’ national survey1 on the federal government and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) revealed that jurors have significantly more positive views of individual federal agencies than the federal government as a whole. But do these attitudes apply for everyone? What personal factors influence these opinions? Part 2 of our investigation into COVID-19-era juror attitudes about government safety standards now seeks to analyze more deeply what affects the differences in jurors’ evaluations, along

Corporate defendants often rely on government safety standards for product safety, services, and workplace procedures. In litigation, standards from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) all play a key role in their defense, case themes, and expert testimony. “OSHA is the expert in keeping workers safe and employers on task”; “The CDC’s findings are based in the world’s best and most respected science”; “The FDA’s regulations are the gold standard for safety in the pharmaceutical industry” – themes like