Fire Victim’s Family Awarded $150 Billion By Texas Jury
This case carries a pretty large settlement for a fire victim but anytime victims can be awarded this large amount means the crime was just as large to the family of the victims and the jury.
A Texas jury has awarded the largest verdict some have ever heard of – $150 billion has been award to the family of a man who died 12 years after being set afire as an 8-year-old.
Attorney Craig Sico says the punitive damage award is symbolic and the family expects none of it will be paid.
The defendant, Don Wilburn Collins, is currently imprisoned on an unrelated sexual assault charge. He was never charged and denies involvement in the 2010 death of 20-year-old Robbie Middleton.
Sico says he asked jurors to make a statement by topping the $145 billion Florida verdict against tobacco companies in 2000.
Neither Collins nor any attorney appeared for him at the civil trial. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice didn’t respond to requests for comment Tuesday.
Read full story at: http://www.atoast2wealth.com/2011/12/26/fire-victims-family-awarded-150-billi...
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