If I’m on the jury they don’t get a dime. In fact, I’d want them to pay for the death of the tiger and the cost of the investigation. There is such a thing as cause and effect. If they did indeed use a slingshot on the tiger and aggravated it to the point of jumping out and attacking them then they themselves caused it. To bad, so sad.
End of story.
The zoo clearly failed to confine the tigers and they did not post a warning sign to the effect that tigers were free to walk about the grounds after 5 PM.
A slick lawyer would do his homework and jury screening and find a way to keep you off the jury. A law student once told me that criminal defense lawyers don’t like Republicans & engineers on juries, for example.
For me, it depends.
How many zoos have had a tiger got out of a enclosure similar to this one......
If it has happened at all before, I would find the zoo at fault, though the monetary compensation would be minimal since they are probably at fault to a certain extent.
Even morons like these kids have reasonable expectation for a tiger enclosure to keep tigers in