Topics: Jury Awards - 199 results

A jury awarded $8.8 million to the family of a man shot three times and killed by police while getting out of his car. Police in Culver City, Calif., pulled over 27-year-old Lejoy Grissom in a parking lot in the middle of the day on April 25, 2010, because they suspected he had robbed a nearby electronics store. Four more officers and a supervisor arrived as back-up and drew their guns as they ordered Grissom out of the car. Moments …

Rhino-maker Yamaha Motor Corporation must pay $3.3 million for an unsafe 660 UTV vehicle that overturned and crushed its driver. Jackie McMahon, of Pensacola, Fla., was driving the four-wheeler on a family farm in Alabama when she tried to make a right turn and the vehicle overturned on top of her, causing serious injuries to her limbs. She first filed suit in 2010, arguing unsuccessfully that the product was defectively designed. After losing the case she filed an appeal, and …

A jury has ordered a nursing home to pay $3.7 million to the daughter of an elderly woman who died during a five-day stint at a nursing home. Janet Smith was a patient at Belmont Lodge Health Care Center in Pueblo, Colo. in May 2011. She planned to stay for only five days while she recovered after breaking her ankle. Smith knew the place well; she had worked there 30 years ago. But according to Smith’s daughter, Margaret, the nursing …

A $32.8 million verdict has been upheld against Cooper Tire for making and selling a defective tire that caused the driver of a van full of refugees to lose control near Bondurant, Iowa, and overturn several times, killing one woman and paralyzing another. Alfred Lang was driving a van carrying six passengers. The seven were refugees from Sudan who were sponsored by church organizations to immigrate here and were carpooling to work at a meatpacking plant in nearby Marshalltown. The left …

A turkey processing company has been ordered by a jury to pay a whopping $240 million for paying mentally disabled workers 41 cents per hour and housing them in a rodent-infested “house of horrors.” The award will be divided evenly among 32 mentally disabled workers who worked for Henry’s Turkey Service in Atalissa, Iowa. The lawsuit alleged the company violated federal law protecting workers with disabilities and that the men were abused, harshly disciplined, including being kicked in the groin, …