On Friday, Sept. 27, a California three-judge Court of Appeal panel affirmed a jury’s verdict of $5.5 million in a wrongful death lawsuit involving a car crash of three people.
According to the court memorandum, the first was speeding carelessly on a Bay Area freeway and crashed into the second car which was rear-ended by a third car. The collision caused the death of the driver of the second car and left his wife with life-threatening injuries.
A San Mateo County jury found that the driver of the third car was 70% responsible, whereas the drivers of the first and second car were each held to be 15% at fault. The jury awarded approximately $5.48 million to the wife and the two children of the driver of the second car.
