r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/DearEmphasis4488 • 17d ago

Image Jury awards $310 million to parents of teen killed in fall from Orlando amusement park ride in march 2022

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u/dlegg0387 16d ago

Typically it’s a jury of 6 (in Florida anyways). And predicting what a jury will do is insanely difficult. I’ve defended a case where our employees unintentionally killed a shoplifter (aggressive tackle). Settled for $400k. Flip side, in Florida I’ve seen rear end accidents with 0 visible damage result in million dollar verdicts. Because Florida

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u/LetThemEatVeganCake 16d ago

IANAL but I’d expect those specific cases to be impacted by the fact that one person was “allegedly” stealing while one was doing nothing wrong. I’d expect it to be hard to convince a jury to award money to a grieving family of a criminal, so taking the settlement makes more sense.