Ford must pay $2.5 billion to the family of the killed couple

A jury found the automaker responsible for a Georgia couple died in 2022, Georgia was killed by a Georgia couple, with Ford’s punitive damages of $2.5 billion.

Herman and Debra Mills were crushed as they accelerated overturn after leaving the road and hitting a drainage culvert hidden by the grass. The pickup flew about 81 feet (24.7 m) through the air and then turned to its roof when in contact with the ground.

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Debra Mills died at the crash site and her husband was injured in the hospital nine days later. Attorneys representing the couple’s family believe the lack of roofing power of the pickup trucks led to their deaths, claiming that all the large trucks Ford built between 1999 and 2016 were “flawed and dangerous weaker roofs.”

The legal team said the truck’s strength-to-weight ratio is 1:1, but the Highway Safety Insurance Institute requires the vehicle to get a “good” rating at a price of 4.0. Ford’s lawyer argues that the truck is safe, Debra Mills suffered a heart attack, causing the crash, but automakers are fighting an uphill battle that has been ordered in 2022 The compensation is related to another fatal punitive damages in 2014.

Ford has been attacked by many lawsuits since the first ruling, Ford authorities notes. After the latest verdict, it continues to claim that the truck was properly built to meet the collapse standards of the time and believes that a $30 billion spending is too high.

A Ford spokesman told the Atlanta Daily Constitution that while we sympathize with the Brogden family, the verdict is an inevitable extreme and is not supported by evidence. ”