Family of Kiersten Smith awarded over $860M in crane collapse lawsuit

DALLAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) – A Dallas jury has awarded over $860 million to the household and property of Kiersten Smith, who died when a building crane collapsed on the Elan Metropolis Lights condo complicated throughout a storm in 2019.

Throughout the trial, attorneys for the household argued that the crane had been left in a inflexible place throughout a windstorm and never allowed to “weathervane,” which suggests to level into the wind.

Attorneys additionally identified that dozens of different building cranes in Dallas survived the identical windstorm with out incident.

Smith was the one resident who died after the crane collapsed on the complicated throughout the storm. 5 others have been injured and lots of have been left and not using a place to stay.

“The defendants Greystar and Gabriella Tower tried to disclaim their apparent duty for this preventable lethal tragedy, and we’re grateful to the jury for holding them accountable and granting a punitive verdict that sends a message that claims large firms can not afford to be reckless with folks’s lives,” the household’s attorneys stated in a press release.