The husband and estate of a woman killed when the car in which she was riding was crushed by a tractor-trailer was awarded $54.4 million by a Fulton County State Court jury Friday. The verdict included $44 million, which a judge since has reduced to $250,000, according to a defense attorney.
The truck driver had “a history of speeding tickets,” said lead plaintiffs’ attorney Peter A. Law, who handled the case with his associate, E. Michael Moran. “And we were able to show that he had exceeded the federally allowed number of hours driving twice just the week before.”
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