Thursday, April 15, 2010

Jury awards 21 MILLION DOLLARS in damages in a Wrongful Death case

The jury found the defendant grossly negligent for texting while driving and causing a fatal crash. The unanimous verdict is one of the largest to be obtained in a texting-while-driving case. 

The subpoenaed the phone records discovered that the defendant had made seven (7) phone calls and sent fifteen (15) text messages during the 45 minutes he was on the road. Some of the messages were sent and received moments before the crash. 

BE SAFE – PLEASE DO NOT TEXT AND DRIVE!

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