Civil suit centering on what was argued to be defective roofs came after couple killed when vehicle rolled over
has promised to appeal a $1.7bn verdict leveled against it in connection with a pickup truck crash that killed a Georgia couple, a manufacturer representative said Sunday.
“An award of punitive damages to hopefully warn people riding around in the millions of those trucks Ford sold was the reason the Hill family insisted on a verdict,” the plaintiffs’ attorneys said. Additionally, the jury determined Ford had sold 5.2m “Super Duty” trucks with weak roofs that would crush people in rollover accidents. The manufacturing flaw was in all “Super Duty” models made between 1999 and 2016, the family’s attorneys said.
In closing arguments, lawyers hired by Ford defended the actions of the US car manufacturing firm as well as its engineers. Lawyers for the plaintiffs had submitted evidence of nearly 80 similar rollover wrecks that involved truck roofs being crushed and injured or killed motorists, Butler’s law firm, Butler Prather LLP, said in a statement.
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