Atlanta lawyers win major product liability case in Dekalb County, Georgia
On Wednesday, a DeKalb County jury awarded Jessica Mundy $40 million dollars after being paralyzed when her Ford Explorer shifted out of park and ran her over. The Atlanta Journal Constitution has the story. Specifically, the jury awarded $30 million in punitive damages, $9 million in compensatory damages, and $1 million for her husband. The suit was against Ford Motor Company and Legacy Ford in McDonough where Mundy purchased the Explorer in 2004. Mundy claimed that a design defect in some ...
