Posted on 12/06/2024 7:37:45 AM PST by yesthatjallen
The family of a Missouri teen who fell over 200 feet to his death while riding a Florida amusement park thrill attraction was awarded $310 million for the 2022 freak accident, as the heartbroken parents blasted the ride maker for not showing up at the trial.
Tyre Sampson’s grieving parents sat inside an Orlando courthouse Thursday as Austrian-based amusement ride manufacturer Funtime Handels was ordered to pay for the teen’s wrongful death.
The family emotionally celebrated as the verdict marked the end of the nearly three-year court ordeal.
“Today we got our day in court — this $310 million verdict sends a message, a great message for accountability,” family attorney Ben Crump said, according to Fox 35 Orlando.
Funtime was ordered to pay two separate $155 million totals to Sampson’s mother, Mekia Dodd, and father, Yarnell Sampson.
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Then why the heck did they award that kind of money?
Never mind. I think I know.
If the fool was white, there would be no Case.
Crump may be corrupt and corrosive, but he’s effective.
Sadly, he’s also reportedly good pals with Pam Bondi.
I can play it out in my mind.
He’s there with a bunch of his homies and they are making a big scene intimidating the park employees. Lawsuit for racism coming. Oh hell, just let him on it so he’ll go away. Damned if you do & damned if you don’t.
Every business lives in fear of lawsuits by the chosen identity classes.
He still hasn’t been investigated for putting up a false witness for the trayvon trial
greedy plaintiff lawyers
“2-3 million tops for any life IMO”
rule of thumb - take the value of all the country’s assets (125 trillion) and divide by the number of people (300 million). You get in the ball park of $400,000 per person.
One of my good friends lost his life due to medical malpractice. It was established. His family got almost nothing because his life valuation was deemed not high. He owned two small businesses that didn’t make a lot of money YET. They were able to use what he had made and the total value of his life was peanuts. Absolute disgrace. Seeing insurance lotteries like this makes me mad all over again.
over the weight limit? Who let him ride then, if it is okay to ask?
But of course this is America, where idiotic ridiculous verdicts like this are considered acceptable.
There appears to be a segment of society that really doesn’t GAS how a “family member” dies, as long as they can clean house in one of whitey’s “courts”. $310 million. Give me a FN break.
No he's not. His bullshit would go nowhere in a *SANE* court system.
The problem we are seeing here is our courts are two parts *IDIOT* with 1 part corruption.
We have dysfunctional courts. They simply do not know how to do their job properly.
“These crazy lawsuit numbers are why insurance rates are through the roof.”
The insurance companies love it, correct?
He was WAY TOO BIG TO BE ON THAT RIDE!! $310 MILLION is RIDICULOUS!!
Ridiculous verdict...how did the plaintiffs prove $310 million in damages?
Wonderful! Poor kid. What’s it cost to check things out each time in exchange for the ticket sales hours later.
If only some freeper teens took this dive more often.
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