A jury awarded more than $29 million to a family that was involved in a fatal motor-vehicle accident on the New York State Thruway in January 2002. The jury found that the accident was caused by negligent overloading of a tractor-trailer.
The trailer's load clipped the underside of an overpass, crashed onto the road and caused motorist Denise Malkin to swerve into a collision with another vehicle. Malkin's husband, 63-year-old Peter Malkin, a passenger, was killed. Another passenger, the Malkins' teenage daughter, claimed that she developed residual post-traumatic stress disorder.
The jury awarded $28,438,864 for damages stemming from Mr. Malkin's death, and the Malkins' daughter recovered $1 million for her emotional suffering.
Estate of Malkin v. Transport Expressway Inc.
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