When juries award more than $10 million to plaintiffs, Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse Florida executive director Tom Gaitens said it potentially causes consumers to lose the ability to shop for insurance.

“It’s just the largess of it,” he said. “The reason it matters is those large verdicts sometimes put businesses out of business and prevent insurers from staying in a marketplace to provide that service when you have fewer carriers.”

In Branen v La Mesa RV Venter et al, a jury in Florida’s Seventh Judicial Circuit found in less than two hours that La Mesa RV and its employee Ronald Scirrotto were responsible for the death of Jacob Brannen, 29, who had been fatally hit while walking to work in Daytona Beach, according to media reports.