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Jury Awards $15 Million in Accident Case, Clears Lawyerless Chrysler

March 21, 2010

A Georgia state court jury has held an alleged drunk driver responsible for $15 million in damages to a girl injured in a car accident, but the plaintiff likely will get only a fraction of the award because the driver has few resources and the designer of the girl’s seat, which broke during the wreck, was cleared by the jury.

 

Complicating matters, according to the plaintiffs lawyers, was the bankruptcy-mandated dismissal of what was then DaimlerChrysler Co. from the case. Jurors faced a verdict form containing a line allocating blame to Chrysler, but no one represented the automaker at trial.

 

Read Article:  Law.Com

 

Posted By:  Phoenix DUI Attorney

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