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Litigation

Apr. 25, 2007

Company Must Pay Injured Man $18 Million

LOS ANGELES - A Taiwanese company must pay $17.7 million to a man severely injured in a road accident because the wife of the company's U.S. president had failed a California driving test four days before she struck the man with a company car, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has found.

By Robert Iafolla
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - A Taiwanese company must pay $17.7 million to a man severely injured in a road accident because the wife of the company's U.S. president had failed a California driving test four days before she struck the man with a company car, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has found.
      The jury actually awarded $18.6 million, thought ...

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