A $5.5 million verdict has been awarded in a wrongful-death case to the parents of a man who died shortly after his vehicle was struck by a tractor-trailer.

The verdict in McConnell v. Guru Global Logistics was handed up by a Lawrence County jury late last month to plaintiffs Vickie and Mark A. McConnell, the parents of then-22-year-old Mark A. McConnell II, who was struck in his car by a tractor-trailer driven by defendant Andrew V. Johnson.