August, 2022

Aug 21 (Reuters) – A jury in Gerogia has returned a $1.7 billion verdict against Ford Motor Co (F.N) involving a pickup truck crash that claimed the lives of a couple, the AP reported on Sunday.

James Butler Jr., lawyer for the Georgia couple Melvin and Voncile Hill who were killed in April 2014 in the rollover wreck of their 2002 Ford F-250, said on Sunday that jurors in Gwinnett County, northeast of Atlanta, returned the verdict late last week, AP reported. 

The couple’s children, Kim and Adam Hill, were the plaintiffs in the years-long wrongful death case, involving what their lawyers called dangerously defective roofs on Ford pickup trucks.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs had submitted evidence of nearly 80 similar rollover wrecks that involved truck roofs being crushed that injured or killed motorists, Butler’s law firm, Butler Prather LLP, said in a statement to the news agency. 

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