A federal judge this week upheld a Connecticut jury’s $2.9 million verdict against General Motors LLC in which a young girl died in her family’s Chevrolet Suburban sport utility vehicle in 2011.

In her 71-page ruling released Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Janet Hall of New Haven knocked down all of the automaker’s arguments about the accidental death of 8-year-old Maggie O’Connor, who died attempting to jump out of the vehicle that had started to roll into the woods.