Anti-corporate bias and conspiratorial thinking are often discussed concurrently, but they are not the same problem. Anti-corporate bias is the assumption that a company cares more about money than people. Conspiratorial thinking is what happens when a juror looks at a complicated fact pattern, multiple witnesses, layers of paperwork, an insurer somewhere in the background, and decides the complexity itself is proof of something being hidden. Either belief system can affect how jurors evaluate the evidence. When both are present in the deliberation room, a factual dispute can quickly become a judgment about the corporation itself.
I have heard far fewer discussions about how these risk factors are not actually about "corporations" as an abstract category, but rather about specific corporations, and how the risk jumps considerably when the jury already knows the defendant's name from somewhere other than the courtroom.
