SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court docket on Thursday upheld $165 million of jury awards towards FedEx in a wrongful-death lawsuit stemming from a lethal crash involving a Texas household and a contract driver for the supply firm.
The 2011 crash on Interstate 10 west of Las Cruces killed Marialy Venegas Morga and her 4-year-old daughter and critically injured the El Paso lady’s 19-month-old son when the household’s small pickup was rear-ended.
In line with testimony, the massive rig did not brake earlier than the crash.
Truck driver Elizabeth Quintana additionally died.
A jury in Santa Fe awarded $93 million in compensatory damages to the estates of these relations killed and $72 million to different relations.
FedEx’s attraction argued that the awards have been extreme and {that a} state District Court docket decide ought to have granted the corporate’s request for a brand new trial.
The Supreme Court docket declined to order a brand new trial within the case, concluding that “substantial proof supported the decision and that the jury’s award was not the results of ardour or prejudice.”