Torts/Personal Injury
Dec. 19, 2024
Fresno jury awards $55M in wrongful death from reversing truck
The amount far outstrips an offer of some $275,000 to the victim's wife and son by Calabasas-based Crusader Insurance Company, plaintiffs' attorney Minh T. Nguyen said.
A Fresno jury returned what the plaintiffs' attorneys believe to be the largest noneconomic wrongful death verdict for a single person at $55 million in a case involving an immigrant man who was crushed to death by a big rig truck.
The amount far outstrips an offer of some $275,000 to the victim's wife and son by Calabasas-based Crusader Insurance Company, plaintiffs' attorney Minh T. Nguyen said in a phone call on Wednesday.
"Their offer was pretty offen...
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