Before “social distancing” became the term de jure in insurance circles, the equally novel term “social inflation” and its corollary “nuclear verdicts” were used to describe the significant increase in verdicts across the country in a range of cases and in jurisdictions where such verdicts were not expected. There have been various explanations posited for this phenomenon.In a recent article in the Daily Report, the co-author of the book, “Reptile: The 2009 Manual of the Plaintiff’s Revolution,” on the use of “reptile …