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Law Practice

Sep. 5, 2008

San Diego Jury Award Marine Families $55 Million

Web Exclusive - A jury has found San Diego Gas & Electric negligent in the deaths of four Marines who were killed when their helicopter hit an unlit utility tower on Camp Pendleton in 2004.

WEB EXCLUSIVE

By Pat Broderick
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      SAN DIEGO - Jurors awarded $40.4 million in punitive damages, and more than $15 million in economic damages to the families of four U.S. Marines killed when their helicopter hit an unlit utility tower on Camp Pendleton during a training flight.
      The jury Wednesday found that San Diego Gas & Electric Co. was neglig...

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