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HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A jury awarded $60 million Tuesday to the family of a 7-year-old girl who was paralyzed when a drunken football fan on his way home from a New York Giants game crashed into the family's car. Antonia Verni of Cliffside Park was 2 years old when the crash happened in 1999 in Hasbrouck Heights. Her family was headed home from a pumpkin-picking trip. The family sued Aramark, the Giants Stadium concessionaire that sold beers to Daniel Lanzaro, saying the company was partly responsible for the crash. The jury deliberated for a day and a half before reaching...

A New Jersey jury has assessed $105 million in compensatory and punitive damages against Aramark Corp., the nation's leading arena concessionaire, in the case of a girl paralyzed in a crash with a driver drunk on beer served at a Giants football game. The father of the victim says the award will make liquor vendors and arenas do a better job of enforcing their rules against selling alcohol to fans who appear to be intoxicated. The evidence in the case against Aramark showed the driver had consumed the equivalent of 16 12-ounce beers, mostly at Giants Stadium in the Hackensack...