Personal Injury Law

Jury Awards Damages to Family Injured by Drunken Driver

By Edward Bills

A Georgia jury this week awarded $15 million to a family who was hit by a drunken driver and whose daughter suffered severe brain damage from the crash. The drunken driver ran a red light, crashing into the Maybaum family?s car. Eleven-year-old Erica?s seatbelt became dislodged and she was thrown into the back of the Jeep, striking her head and causing it to dislocate from the spine. The jury wanted to assign some of the damages to the makers of the Maybaum?s car, Chrysler, but because the car company filed for bankruptcy protection last year, the automaker was protected.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on March 18, 2010 (boomark / email).