Georgia jury awards $1.7 billion in Ford truck crash case

A Georgia jury has came back a $1.7 billion finding against Ford Motor Co. involving a motortruck crash that claimed the lives of a Georgia couple

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Jurors in Gwinnett County, simply northeast of Atlanta, came back the decision late last week within the years-long civil case

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Melvin and Voncile Hill were killed in April 2014 within the change wreck of their 2002 Ford F-250.

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Their kids Kim and Adam Hill were the plaintiffs within the decease case.

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While our sympathies exit to the Hill family, we tend to don't believe the decision is supported by the proof, and that we arrange to charm

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In closing arguments, lawyers employed by the corporate defended the actions of Ford and its engineers.

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In closing arguments, lawyers employed by the corporate defended the actions of Ford and its engineers.

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Lawyers for the plaintiffs had submitted proof of nearly eighty similar change wrecks that concerned truck roofs being crushed that contused or killed motorists

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