Posted on 10/20/2014 6:24:28 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
A jury has awarded $12 million to a California woman who blamed Toyota for leaving her a paraplegic after a crash.
The Superior Court panel in Monterey awarded the money last Friday to Chelsie Hill of Pacific Grove and found Toyota 90 percent liable for her injuries.
Hill was a rear passenger in a Toyota 4Runner driven by a drunken teenager that crashed in Monterey in 2010.
Spinal injuries left her unable to walk.
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Jury verdicts in civil cases are not easy to overturn on appeal. There would have to been some error by the court and that is hard to show.
Fact is. The winning party at trial always has a huge advantage on appeal.
There will probably be an appeal filed but mostly it be done to try and negotiate down the size of the award and/or the cost bill.
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