If 2023 was the year of pesticide litigation, 2024 brought an entirely different kind of toxic exposure to chart-topping verdicts. Real Water, the defunct maker of ionized bottled water, found itself the subject of not one but two of the largest personal injury verdicts in U.S. history, totaling more than $8 billion. From murder for hire and school shootings to underride crashes and tainted baby formula, the 2024 top verdicts spanned the full range of catastrophic injury law.