The lawyers involved in a $150 million verdict over a Jeep gas tank fire that killed a 4-year-old boy are gearing up for another courtroom battle, this one on Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ motion for a new trial.
“The jury’s stunning and unprecedented damage awards are grossly excessive and cannot stand,” Fiat Chrysler’s lawyers wrote in a memorandum of law supporting the company’s motion for new trial. The brief, signed by M. Diane Owens of Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers in Atlanta, said the $120 million wrongful death award is more than 11 times higher than “the largest wrongful death award ever upheld on appeal in Georgia history.” In addition, the company said, the $30 million award for the pain and suffering of Remington Walden in the minute he was being burned alive in the fire was “more than four times the largest pain and suffering award ever upheld by Georgia courts.”
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