Pa. Jury Awards Nearly $1B in Defective Seatbelt Case

Pa. Jury Awards Nearly $1B in Defective Seatbelt Case

“This will continue and you have the power to make it stop,” Wesley Ball, of Kaster Lynch Farrar & Ball, told the jury.

A Philadelphia jury has handed up a more than $976 million verdict in a lawsuit over a defective seatbelt that left a man quadriplegic.

A jury handed up the verdict Monday afternoon, awarding more than $176.5 million in compensatory damages to plaintiffs Francis and Soomi Amagasu and $800 million in punitive damages against the lone defendant at trial, Mitsubishi Motors Corp.

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