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  • Sacramento jury awards $16.6 million for mom's death in Wii radio contest

    10/30/2009 12:25:49 AM PDT · by raccoonradio · 1 replies · 793+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 10/29/09 | Andy Furillo
    A Sacramento jury set an eye-popping standard Thursday on the cost of radio station contests that kill and the resulting loss of a mother's love and a wife's companionship. The tab for Entercom Sacramento LLC came to $16,577,118 in the water-intoxication death of Jennifer Lea Strange in a contest put on by radio station KDND "The End" (107.9 FM). Such was the award rendered by a Sacramento Superior Court jury of seven men and five women in the trial to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of Strange's survivors. The 28-year-old woman died Jan. 12, 2007, after she...