A row of new Ford F-250 pickup trucks are parked for sale at a Ford dealer in the Denver suburb of Broomfield, Colorado April 14, 2011. REUTERS/Rick WilkingAug 21 - A jury in Gerogia has returned a $1.7 billion verdict against Ford Motor CoJames Butler Jr.
The couple's children, Kim and Adam Hill, were the plaintiffs in the yearslong 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.
"An award of punitive damages to hopefully warn people riding around in the millions of those trucks Ford sold was the reason the Hill family insisted on a verdict," AP reported, quoting Butler.According to closing arguments made in court by defense lawyer William Withrow Jr.
Paul Manke, another defence lawyer, said that the allegation that Ford was irresponsible and willfully made decisions that put customers at risk is "simply not the case," AP reported.Reporting by Juby Babu in Bengaluru; editing by Diane Craft
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